I've always said he's a puppet doing the bidding of the elite
Maybe, maybe not. I do find it hard to believe that the powers the be would hand over the office of the commander in chief to any ole Joe Schmoe who rose up from the populace and won the electoral college. Therefore I can only conclude that people who run for president are probably groomed for it as part of a long term agenda.
At the same time it's counterintuitive that a president who opposes the elite's agenda could somehow be supporting it simultaneously. The word that comes to mind here is what is known as controlled opposition which is just a strategy used to covertly control or influence the publicly stated purpose of a movement.
The amount of coordination required to make this look convincing would be impressive and would indicated a corruption so deeply embedded that suggesting this would only draw on accusations of being a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.
So I'm of the mindset that what we are seeing is highly dramatized, but it's ultimately all real. So Trump is neither.