That's all in the realm of possibility.

The man truly has no clue what he is doing.

Remember when the easy solution was to get China, the Currency Manipulator, to dictate to N Korea?  

Then after meeting with Xi:

“After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it’s not so easy,” the president told the Journal. “I felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power [over] North Korea. ... But it’s not what you would think.”