"Trump continues to reason...."
"Trump continues to reason", inaccurate though its literal meaning may be, is convenient shorthand for what is actually happening: Trump makes the theatrical but unsubstantive decisions, while the substantive ones are made by whomever is actually in charge, passed along by his aides as "suggestions". So while mindless hand-puppets may get things right now and then, there's no real way of learning how or why the decisions were actually made. Don't you love transparency in government.