Reads like Trump insiders trying to get outside influence via media coverage to help pitch their "don't destroy the American economy for no good reason" plan to Trump.
> For months, Mr. Trump has privately fretted about the prospect of a Great Depression-scale event’s happening on his watch — a scenario he shorthands in conversations as “1929.”
https://archive.is/2025.04.19-045009/https://www.nytimes.com...