He is committing assault and battery at multiple points in that video clip. Isn't he? When is his arrest?

Is anyone really surprised at all?

This breaks the executive branch.

Just because the President says it, it doesn't' mean it's true or legally binding.

They are either allies or blinded by the illusion of power and imagining what THEY could do when THEY have the upper hand.

I checked all my maps, books, and globes they still say "Gulf of Mexico".
Not once had any of them changed to "The Gulf renamed by a guy with Yeti pubes and a member like the mushroom character in Mario Kart".

I contend they do in fact know what they are doing. None of the reaction or consequences are an accident.