In business vernacular it is known as “The Golden Touch”. Busting loose a professional mime to mimic vaporware is an outward expression of an emergent magical realism state of mind.
Successful businessmen who begin to see their fortune, their judgement and the value of their net worth as a direct validation of their magical touch, do stupid “human in robot costume” tricks.
It is one step below Trump’s saying he could shoot someone dead in public and believes he would be exonerated for doing so. It is two steps away from Apple’s unilateral embedded censorship against 4th Amendment right to privacy in its cellphone operating system. Lastly, it is a country mile away from the richest person in the world suing NASA.gov to force contract award and Billions of dollar payouts on a failed and rejected proposal.
Latin America has nothing over USA-style magical realism sweeping the North American continent. Its a spreading wildfire amongst elite 1% power brokers and corporate citizenry while the peons enjoy the vaudeville acts