Anonymous wrote:Nah, I think he honestly thought all of this would work out and BAM the economy would be fabulous. His understanding of economics is about at a 3-year old's level. Listening to Navarro and Bessent et al. blather nonsense into his ears convinced him that it would work. Making a killing off of crypto is a nice bonus.
He doesn't live in reality anymore, if he ever did. He actually thinks he won at the Supreme Court in the Abrego Garcia case, 9-0,
TBH, I'm with OP. Yeah, I think he half-believes maybe this stuff would work, but his broligarch backers are heavily invested in crypto as well as the concept of networked states. This is what they want.