Again, though, do you think that there’s some concrete goal he was aiming for which he could have achieved if only he hadn’t fired and insulted them? Or do you just think that it was terribly rude and they didn’t deserve to be treated that way? I wouldn’t call the latter stupidity, especially since he was working against contemporaneous predictions that the site wouldn’t be able to function without those people.
He did try to get out of buying it which everyone seems to have memoryholed. I doubt anything other than way too much ketamine is behind a lot of the chaotic decision making.
* make white nationalism acceptable on Twitter
* while increasing the US government's dependence on it
* at the same time that the US president owns a competing social media app
I think nearly anyone would have told you that's impossible. Strategic chaos in service of a bad goal just looks stupid from a distance.