You're the second person to make that quote in this discussion. It's such a lazy sentiment. You do know that there are people who have long careers in options trading, right?
(And in general, the market sentiment seems to be "There's a decent chance this all just blows over", so shorting is likely as ill-advised as plowing in long, unless you happen to have better insight into the decision-making in the white house than the average participant)
Just because it's someone's profession doesn't mean is is or should be everyone's profession.
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is true for me, for you, for the person who quoted it above, and for the median person reading it.
The fact that some people make a living off of attempting to beat the market, with...mixed success, doesn't mean that the quote is false.