Uhm, a lot of us knew America didn’t have very good cards in this fight, definitely not the great cards Trump thought we had. It’s clear to me now that China will be the next world power now that Trump has disassembled the only real advantages we had (high tech innovator, attractor of world talent, world trust).
I simply believe he'd be too stupid to execute any sort of Manchurian candidate plot. Letting him follow his capricious, ruinous whims is more advantageous for adversaries anyway.