Here's what that miserable fuck in the White House is doing with the stock market.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Can't Agree

I think it much simpler to assume they actually thought tariffs would do what he claims & found out they are consequences, plus the fact that they seldom work as well as hoped.
He and his lackeys thought this was his ticket to Rushmore and are simply too dumb to have anticipated the negative reaction.
Your approach presumes competence & strategic thinking when little evidence exists for either.