I’m just speculating like everyone else, but my sense is that his handlers were grateful to provide him with such a distraction. It’s a constant war of giving Trump something to do or say that makes him feel useful so he stays out of the way, then praying it doesn’t yet again turn into a thisisfine.png each time he finds a way to turn something that was supposed to be meaningless and foolproof into a global crisis.
Potential case in point.