This perfectly fits Zero’s MO of being too lazy and inept to do things the right way. I suppose arming the rebels is one way to bring about change or enact foreign policy, but going through the trouble of planning and legislating is way too much work for Dear Leader and his idiot cronies. And why should they? They’re tyrants and the people and the press don’t care.
I disagree on one point: They (not Zero himself, perhaps, but his cabal) are not lazy in one respect. They are expert and relentless practitioners of both legislative and judicial warfare. Zero may be personally lazy, but somebody—ValJar, or his circle of buddies—is/are relentless in creating EOs and perverse regulations and legislations. Even if he doesn’t think it all up himself—after all, he has a busy golf and party schedule—he OKs it and he promotes it.