That doesn't make sense as Q was not necessary to establish trust in POTUS. Worse still, it focused eyes on the deep state and its operations while building the expectation it would be removed.
If Q was supposed to be a psy-op against us, then it is about the most stupid one imaginable.
…. Which might be the case that Q was actually given such a mission and Q was like "yeah, that's fucking retarded and will blow up in your face." And openly stated as such in the drops.