I think he wants to win the game.
The only game that matters to him. Who had the most money when he dies.
Everything he's doing is aimed at maintaining his grip on power, not because he likes power. He does, but it's not what drives him.
He wants money. So much money that the richest people in the world will grovel at his feet like they do Elon. Like he does Elon. He sees Putin's untold billions, and thinks, "Ha, I can do more."
Why? Because he's a textbook narcissist, with megalomania. A sociopath. Focused on his sole goal. The accumulation of wealth as a band-aid for the aching hole in his heart where his parents should have been. He wants to be loved. He doesn't know what it is, but he wants it. He knows his wives haven't had it. He knows his children don't have it. Not for him.
And he wanted to be loved his whole life. He wanted in to the Upper East Side, the Hollywood set, the Foggy Bottom folk...the really really wealthy and powerful.
And they rejected him. Over and over, they looked at his gaudy idea of what rich meant, and laughed at him.
And he's nursed that wound ever since, picking at it, never letting it heal. And now through luck and timing such as his pampered ass had never seen, he has a chance. One chance. To rob the US blind, hundreds of billions, and finish on top.
Everything else follows. He's a deep racist, for sure, because why not? It's not going to hurt him in the USA. It's profitable. But I don't think he hates immigrants as such. He hates brown people. and Black people. He's a plain white supremacist, but not ideologically, just out of his racism.
The rest? It's all off-hand flourishes. He's fine with it all, but he doesn't really *care* if trans people get wiped out. He's just reading the room. We're convenient. Sociopath, remember? We're all pawns in his universe. Absolute solipsism.