It doesn't make sense if you believe that Trump has your best interest at heart. He doesn't.
He is an incompetent bumbler who has fumbled this entire thing.
He wants you to think its going away, so you will go to work and stop pestering him about it.
He doesn't want to fix the problem.
That's why he is fixing the numbers to make it look like it went down, while at the same time doing nothing about it.
I get it though. you believe the reality TV star over your own eyes.