For now, it seems as if the president’s economy-nuking bad math was somehow too stupid to implement, even for this uniquely depraved administration.

“I can breathe now… But everything could change tomorrow,” one big Trump and GOP donor says, days after telling Rolling Stone: “I don’t know if I would be this worried about what will happen to the economy if Bernie fucking Sanders were president. That’s how bad this is.”

In fact, mere hours before the president cried “PAUSE,” an array of Trump advisers and close associates were watching through splayed fingers, unsure if catastrophe and collapse were waiting around the next news cycle.

“I am cautiously optimistic about the future. But I’m scared to death right now,” Art Laffer, a well-known Reaganite economist who remains an informal adviser to Trump, said in a phone interview Wednesday morning. “I am a wuss. I really don’t like taking things to the brink,” he said, explaining that Trump was “doing something I never would do, because I’m a chicken, and he’s not. It frightens me, but can I say he’s wrong? I don’t know.”