nutildah you must be underestimating the political power, especially someone like trump.
I saw this tweet from Peter Schiff, I know he's a dick but of course in every nonsense there is a sense.
This leads me to justify the perception of manipulation in the market to be very much true not just with Pooya87 theory because I also made similar claims in my own thread.

Peter isn't saying all nonsense here he also has a point, looking at the campaign structure you could tell whales are behind him hence he made speeches in favour of bitcoin but slightly initiated the word crypto to cover his own plans of stealing with pump and dump scheme which him and his wife are part of now.

Pooya87 is absolutely correct that budget deficit is very much different from national debt, but then the deficit adds up to national debt too.

Peter further said below
Now the tariffs are flashing everywhere, having a heat of the market burning price down every now and then. whales obviously buying hard at this point knowing fully well the game plan of trump to repay his sponsors. We can sight the whales (individuals) during the White House Crypto Submit, he invited a lot of this bitcoin guys and most likely his sponsors (allegedly). Marketing fraud is real and trump is obviously doing that with bitcoin and of course long time ago guys (musky trumpeter) call bitcoin a Ponzi scheme far long ago and had no interest in it now suddenly they are in for the profit it will only feed their pockets obviously pointing to their old stand or calling it a bubble or Ponzi Scheme.