There is a battle in the administration between the more establishment republicans led by Pence and Priebus and the white nationalists led by Bannon, Miller and Flynn.  The two warring camps, combined with president Trump's temperament, is creating an administration which at this point can best be described as management by chaos.  This serves the president's aim of making himself the center of all power and decisions free from ideologic constraints or policy considerations.  In Trump's view, this gives him an advantage over everyone else, i.e. all his "enemies" both foreign (any country except russia) and domestic (democrats, protestors, republicans, intelligence community, journalists, tech industry, courts, etc...).  Trump is basically apolitical but unfortunately his view of the world as a brutish struggle for power means he is more susceptible to manipulations by the white nationalists.