He’s (rather Bessent) literally crashing the economy in order to force the Fed to lower the rates. To be fair, a soft landing was a pipe dream. Bessent has a long history of talking about this type of reckoning.
"Setting the building on fire was and in turn the entire blockthe only way to address the creaky floors". There's no Trump masterplan here (or anywhere else) than the sanewashing of his bs by his fanbois.