As an outsider, and a person who has never visited the US, I'm rather amazed at all the confusion that's going on.
In a free democracy with transparent voting procedures, it would be expected that the people get the president they deserve.
If the majority is too stupid to work out which is the best candidate, then they must suffer the consequences.
If the system is designed in such a way that the total majority of individual votes in all states combined, does not determine the results, then presumably that's for a reason, in order not to marginalize the less populated states.
The US has chosen, within the parameters of its voting system, to elect an apparently incompetent president. This is not Donald Trumps's fault. My understanding is that he was initially very surprised that his tactics during the election campaign appeared to be very successful. It's understandable that he continued with such tactics and eventually became President.
The fact that he became President could be considered as a criticism of the intelligence of the American people plus their obvious disenchantment with previous governments. There was no other candidate who could 'trump' Trump. Don't blame Trump for that.
All this concern about Russia's involvement in the election outcome, is a total distraction and a waste of money.
America's problems are it's huge debt, it's continuing military expenditure, and its lousy health care system for the poor and vulnerable. Fix it if you can. If you can't, then suffer the consequences.
You are right that we are diverted from our problems of debt, high health care costs, increasing deficits, North Korea and other miscreants, etc. Unfortunately the establishment is more concerned with power and politics. The elite establishment on both sides as well as business and the media saw Trump as a threat and tried to stop him from being president and now are trying to destroy him since he was elected. The Washington Post and the NY Times, always liberal and Democrat, have made it their mission to attack him every day. Yes, Trump often gives them ammunition. But if he was Obama, it would be overlooked or downplayed.
Frankly, if you look at his policies since he became President, they are rather traditional even if you you're looking from the other side. Certainly they're not radical nor even much different then what we have. Obamacare isn't going away. He supports most of it just in another form. He's strengthened our military and international policies, something ready to be done after Obama. WE need tax reform; the stock markets have shown their appreciation of his plans by going up about ten percent. He put a first rate justice on the Supreme Court. He is learning his job and I suspect he'll turn out to be a rather competent steward of the office when all is said and done. Frankly, I don't know how he puts up with all the attack for almost two years. To have beat everyone singlehandedly including many from his own party, and now have to defend yourself against the barrage of attacks from the press and others is not easy. Sure it's easy to be "presidential" like Obama did when you have the support of the media. But everyone is out to get you, everything you do is attacked. Well, they say presidential politics isn't tiddlywinks.