Yesn’t.

It very much is a distraction and Trump uses these threats to draw eyes away from other things he doesn’t want the world looking at.

But they are still very serious threats to make and they normalise this behaviour. We cannot forget that the Trump admin has attacked other nations after making threats like this (Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, etc) and slashed trade relations with many others.

WTF are you talking about? Did Americans ever react in significant numbers to do anything to get rid of Trump yet that I didn’t hear about? What is it you think is happening when Americans are NOT distracted? I’ll tell you what happens. Nada nothing zero zilch.

Why don’t you finally STFU Americans and do something, Trump is a representative of America as a country, and your country is waging illegal war, and threatening allies, and undermining the global economy.
How about some of you woke up and did something?
When your country is doing this, Americans as a people are as guilty as Israelis are, and the Germans were during WW2.
You can’t blame this on Americans falling for distractions, Americans have done nothing about these issues since the 70’s.