Yes, it seems that the #1 lesson he learned from his first term wasn't that you have to have appoint only intense loyalists who will never turn on you, but rather that flooding the channel helps tremendously to cause the important things to blow over more quickly. And the American Left, with their tendency to explode over anything mildly 'offensive,' is absolutely the perfect target for this trolling, since they can be easily trolled with things like this that have zero significance, and are free and legal to do. So that his opponents spend about 90% of their energy fighting the 90% of things that don't matter.