Trump is playing blackjack with the economy by doubling down on each hand, hoping for a five-card Charlie. This strategy is guaranteed to fail.
If he was serious about incentivising government workers to retire, he should not have wiped out their retirement portfolios with a stock market crash because of tariffs. 401 K mutual funds are down across the board no matter how diversified they are.

His coup is some dumb bumbling mess. I get the feeling that whoever laughed out loud regarding Trump's insurpassable ignorance and vanity he now seeks to punish. They could have been at his UN speech or on his European tour, but if they laughed at him, he can't forget it.
He was really damaged at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when Obama told a joke about Donald. He never attended again.