Donald Trump doesn’t have enough of an attention span to want to run the country on a day-to-day basis. He wants to be: (a) the center of attention; (b) popular; (c) in charge of all negotiations of any consequence; and (d) the man who makes all of the really important decisions. Everything else can and will be delegated.
Carrier is a good example of what we can expect over the next four years: a very public intervention in the economy which created lots of favorable headlines, but ultimately accomplished less than met the eye.