Actually I think the real question is whether Trump believes that shooting is the appropriate response to looting. He seems to believe it is.
Verbal show of force.
Trump doesn't want national troops involved at all. He is saying to the locals - handle it. And this is what is now occurring.
Your Kremlinology seems a little slapdash today. How you reach insights like that from the “poop poop waa waa I want my bottle” coming out of trump seems more leap of faith on your part than anything evidence leads to.
Cadet bone spurs, wanting to be a wartime president, is getting his ass handed to him by Covid so he’s trying to open a second front on the streets of American cities.