Take this with a grain of salt, much of it is my read of Trump as a person and what kind of stuff he has done or said so far, but: I tend to think a lot of what he says is not directly related to any sort of specific US imperialist strategy and is more just him talking. His shtick seems to be that he basically just improvises constantly; whatever comes out comes out, no matter how ridiculous it may sound. And as for his actions, I expect he goes along with the imperialist tack of the day to an extent because every US president has to or they’d probably get taken out of the picture by force, but he also seems to have a clear typical narcissist bully way of behaving, where he genuinely thinks he can strongarm people on stuff. And fair for him to believe that, considering the power he has held being rich and the power he has held being in political office in the US. But as narcissists tend to be, he is also a certain degree of arrogant and more blindly self-serving than strategic. So I would expect him to do whatever he thinks will personally enrich him without ruining him, but not really have personal interest in a shared comprehensive imperialist strategy. Musk seems to be of a similar (though not identical) bent, where he is rabidly self-interested and often mask off about it and doesn’t as much want to do the ruling class schemer thing where they carefully work together to screw everyone else. Or to put it another way, even if someone like that wanted to do it, they might find it hard to prioritize it over their own flailing ego-based interests.