Good grief dude, turn off the TV for a couple of days. The Trump has been president for like a month, and literally nothing has happened. Unless you have a burning desire for war in Syria and Russia, why would you strain to find noble intentions in intelligence agencies, of all places?
* Within the first week of his Presidency, a de facto Chinese government press organ threatened military action against the USA.
* Legal US residents were detained and turned back at US borders, as a result of an executive order of questionable constitutionality.
* Trump has challenged the legitimacy of US courts and judges, and threatened to remove them from power.
* Trump has declared all the country's major news agencies as enemies of the people. Maybe you have trouble understanding just how serious an accusation that is.
* Having been threatened with a 20% import tax and after the scrapping of the TPP, Mexico as one of the US' major trade partners is scrambling to improve its trade relations with China and other countries that are not the US.
* Trump has fired one of his advisors over allegations of treason he called fake. Whatever the truth is, Trump put himself in the wrong in this matter.
That's an astonishing set of mis-achievements for just a month in office.
Within the first week of his Presidency, a de facto Chinese government press organ threatened military action against the USA.
Bluffers gonna bluff. What're they gonna do, invade Taiwan over a phone call? Maybe start a nuclear war? Trump's complete non-reaction to these goofy empty threats was one of the few unambiguously correct foreign policy moves he's made so far. Call back when you have a real navy.
Legal US residents were detained and turned back at US borders, as a result of an executive order of questionable constitutionality.
Presidents have been trampling on our rights for decades at least. Obama was particularly fond of extrajudicial assassination by drone, and it appears Trump completely agrees, but I haven't seen any protests about that. Happily, this overreach was overruled in a matter of days.
Trump has challenged the legitimacy of US courts and judges, and threatened to remove them from power.
Like FDR did, right? Except he actually did more than, you know, threaten...
Trump has declared all the country's major news agencies as enemies of the people. Maybe you have trouble understanding just how serious an accusation that is.
Is that a direct quote? I do have that trouble, along with anyone else who has observed these "major news agencies" for more than a minute. They only care about eyeballs, and they will say anything to attract those eyeballs. Criticizing them is not an attack on the First Amendment, but rather an exercise of it.
Having been threatened with a 20% import tax and after the scrapping of the TPP, Mexico as one of the US' major trade partners is scrambling to improve its trade relations with China and other countries that are not the US.
Elections have consequences, but those consequences have yet to occur. Threats and scrambles have no short-term effects. In the long term, they might cause some supply chain modifications, but we ain't there yet.
Trump has fired one of his advisors over allegations of treason he called fake. Whatever the truth is, Trump put himself in the wrong in this matter.
Hiring-and-immediately-firing could be a definition of "nothing happening".
I'm not a fan of CIA et al in the slightest, but I would consider US involvement a major war anywhere to be far less likely with them running the show, compared to the likes of Bannon and Flynn. So from that perspective, the former is still preferable.
Funny thing is, I don't watch TV - at all. And the single most used app on my phone is Kindle.
So, in the same spirit in which your suggestions were given, I would suggest that you stop playing psychologist on the Internet. You're clearly not good at it.
