Is anyone surprised? It's not like it was a secret, and a majority of voters still voted this government in.
Maybe most thought it'll be better for inflation and chose to ignore or belittle the crazy. It seems we're getting the crazy now - and not, yet anyway, a single action of inflation.
In Trump's first term he had one of the lowest rates of fulfilling campaign promises of any president. I was caught off-guard by him actually appearing to go through with this.
Kind of. He also spent $120m in taxpayer money to spend nearly a quarter of his first term golfing. He wasn't the most active president I've ever seen.