Yes this can happen very easily even you can do it but please don’t call it Bitcoin any more.
If Ver can call it Bitcoin then why not OP 😜
Anything forked from Bitcoin is not Bitcoin anymore, it's altcoin but people like Ver thinks that become bitcoin and Bitcoin becomes Bitcoin core.
@NatureMoves, supply or anything can be manipulated but that will be your own coin. It's the piece of code you change and fork Bitcoin.