The other version of this story is the banks all start collapsing and he says "fuck them, they deserve it, not one dollar!"

Well, cascading failure, banks start dropping like flies, banking regulators call an indefinite bank holiday on ALL banks...

Depositor insurance kicks in, but there's no place to put the money, so Trump is like: Maybe send them USDT? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Suddenly out of nowhere USDT becomes The Standard for dollars, and everyone is like "Well we didn't WANT a CBDC but one just kinda happened..."