It reads to me more as ‘tepid’. He’s obviously trying to be as apolitical as possible, but I don’t think that’s going to help.
On the other hand, Trump catastrophicly imploding the US economy is one of the likelier good endings to this insanity.
and why would that be a good ending? Or are you saying that such an event would collapse the superpower, in which case, it's good (but for everyone else other than that superpower)?