Yeah, if anything, being a puppet makes it more worrisome. We don't know who is running this country (exactly, at least) and the figurehead is up there doing this shit. No one can be directly held accountable. Not that they would have been anyway, so it's somewhat of a moot point, but still.

This lunatic is up there raging, and we've got no line for grievances to the people pulling his strings. He's the President, anything he says still has massive weight behind it, even if he's a puppet.