It's complicated. I think there are a few banking families that hold the keys to the US corporate entity. They oversee the financial structure and fund the intelligence agencies to make sure it runs as designed (keep the people in line, protect their monetary system, force their agendas globally, etc).

What makes it complicated is that the political class they use to make the people think they have a voice, is unpredictable, and it lets people like Ron Paul, MTG, and Thomas Massie pull the curtain back and challenge the agenda.

Meanwhile, the bureaucratic govt class they established to capture the people's assets has become corrupt, ineffective and self-involved. They put the project at risk by turning the people against the company.

My view is that the powers behind the deep state sent Trump in to destroy the Clintons, shake up the system, weed out the corruption (largely fostered by the Clinton people), send a message to the CIA to be less hubristic, and to get the country ready for the financial reset they need to execute to remain in power.

Trump has his own ideas of what the country should be and do. Every president does. But in the end, they discover they aren't in charge. If they push back too much, the get killed like Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy.

And none of that covers the spiritual dimension behind it all.