To be honest, Trump is literally a Republican in name only. He's not a conservative and he's nothing like former Republicans. He's a populist who ends up more or less moderate because of the pure chance of chaos. In other words, he's "moderate" because randomness trends towards something like a Gaussian distribution. He doesn't have any political ideology but if anything, he's more like the Democrats of the 1960s through 1980s (but more on the liberal end of that spectrum if you pay attention to some of his more persistent ideas).
Without any core political ideology, he's a chameleon. That could be positive if it was a ideologically-driven pragmatism, but his is more of a poll chasing and stock/bond market chasing pragmatism than anything else (and that's being generous about having any sort of goal). Add to this chaotic mix limited aptitude*, lack of understanding of laws, weak mental filter, and a likely personality disorder* and we have a president who is disconnected from reality. Although, some of how he acts and what he says is pure showmanship. It's thus difficult to know how much is 'acting' and how much is really him. None of that makes for a stable, predictable president.
*Without a formal assessment, I'm not going to diagnose
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