I heard an interesting theory recently that he is intentionally creating turmoil in the market to directly benefit himself and his family through market manipulation. Basically his family members short stocks right before he declares massive tarrifs and then they watch the entire market drop and make huge profits. Then they buy stocks before he announces the removal of tarrifs and watch the market go up and make themselves more profit. then repeat - short the market before the tarrif announcements and then buy before they announce the removal. Its speculation but its pretty easy to make money in the stock market when you know exactly what it's going to do.