Tesla Stock and Rocket Man's Incentive

At some time, 28.7M shares of Tesla common stock (TSLA) must be purchased in the open market by the short interest, which is ~$10,390,659,760 of buying power. If Rocket Man shorted $1B worth of TSLA at today's close and put the price up 10 by bidding to cover, he would lose $28M on the trade, however, his total net worth would increase by $382M, and presto: a $354M net profit or >1,200% risk adjusted return, by shorting your own stock. A thing of beauty.