It's Trump playbook.
He has in less than a month started peace talks. He's got Ukraine to come and sign a deal for mineral rights to pay back the money spent by Biden. Biden didn't ask for any form of loan repayment, unlike EU countries which has Zelenzsly sign and he did.
Trump is a business man, it's about what s best for the USA
Why do people assume that government and business should be run in a similar way?
Trump is - at best - transactional. Leave Europe stranded and you can bet that European leaders are already serious about decoupling from US interests. Give Putin what he wants with no compromise then you can bet that Chinese leadership are looking on with interest. Maybe Taiwan isn't such a big deal to the US if they throw Trump a bone on semi manufacturing plants? There is very little strategic thinking going on apart from the next deal.
The whole "run government as a business BS" can be no more clearly seen by Musk's actions. He has a methodology which is to strip out whole functions, see what breaks and then fix. Crap way of working even in business, but an outage on Twitter/X isn't quite the same as "accidently" farking up medicare or welfare payments or FAA regulatory process.
BTW, in true Trump style, the Ukrainian minerals deal is not signed yet and it is all that bigly from the reports. A lot of Ukraine's latent rare earth mineral store is in Russian held territory and Ukraine doesn't have much in these reserves anyway. If decoupling from China on rare earths is the aim then India and Brazil have big reserves, and in fact they aren't massively rare! The actual issue is not the reserves but the processing which is messy with very toxic waste and energy intensive. We preferred to leave that to China up until now.
