Of course he should be fired for this.

The reality - at these levels - is that to rise to these levels typically requires that others involved feel comfortable they have enough leverage on you that they can force you out ‘quietly’ if they need to do so.

Which is what is happening.

I’ve seen some wild things that were allowed to continue because the math was paying out at the time.

Somewhere the math changed, and this is the consequence.

Post election ‘cleanup’ in approach?

Change in expectations on future growth trajectory?

Someone with their own interests (shorting the stock) got too much leverage?

This is already costing individual folks billions, and shareholders hundreds of billions. that kind of thing often involves someone’s ‘chess moves’, even if it’s just them blowing up in their faces.