United States Politics: ∆τ_i*ε*φ*m_i<0 where ε=4 and φ=0.25

[Uncle]

He promised to crash the economy and people were too stupid to even look up what tariffs mean until after the election.

I need to know if this is a stupid thought, or a completely obvious thought that everyone's already like "duh yes of course:"

is this just the grandest scale possible of the crypto pump and dump

warn your buddies, get everyone shorting all the stocks, then crash the economy, let all your buddies buy the dip, and then say nevermind and undo it so you all get richer when it recovers

like I really don't see any other reason for this, just standard insider trading