Given the profound incompetence he's demonstrated at planning ANYTHING, this is about as likely as George W. Bush secretly being a brilliant mastermind turncoat who was working for the Democrats all along.
And at this point, if it is a hoax, he's pitched it in such a way as to receive no benefit from it, by telling people who don't like the retcon, "No, really, we're not changing it back, and if you want us to, then you suck, and we hate you, and we'd literally rather go bankrupt than take any of your money."