You didn't mean it to be a tricky question, or for anyone to critically analyze it, but a perfect government charter is not useful if all of the government officers are dishonorable lying cheaters.
The subsisting United States Constitution is an erroneous charter, and the founders knew it to be so, because they were aware that they did not have all of the information necessary to compose a more reliable charter, nor the sophisticated man power. George Washington is credited with having commenced the Third Continental Congress with the ambition to do the best that they could do.
Furthermore, the Federalist Papers, if you can comprehend them, has a lot of descriptions of the inadequacies; but the problem is that contemporary pundits/politicians use these descriptions to vilify their partisan adversaries as being corrupt.
The checks and balances are conflicted and not balanced. The founders, and subsequent generations, have only had one simple formula to work with, and it is mistakenly used to formulate separate "branches," where as, what it actually describes are the three phases for processing law, which would then be the subdivisions of the proper branches. The proper branches of government are supposed to be demarcated by the main partitions of civil law: sovereignty, martial, diplomacy, commerce, trust, and property law. The founders were probably unable to determine the main partitions, and they were definitely unable to organize the proper separation, because of the stricter qualification standards that such specifications would prescribe - they just did not have the information revealed to determine the peer groups, nor the sophisticated manpower available to recruit, during the founding eras of the nation and adjoining states.
Trickle down economics is not a campaign policy - it is an inevitable and constant aspect of social systems - the "food chain." Consequently, because the irregular subsisting three-part system, with its complicated and incomprehensible unaligned subdivisions, is tasked with processing modern detailed law under the stress of tremendous diversity and advanced sophisticated media personalities irresponsibly determined to exploit the inadequacies in their self-aggrandizing efforts to reveal that the system is "broken;" what we have, now, is a semi-chaotic mess that is politely referred to as “political gridlock” at the federal level, that trickles down in the forms of government corruption and hypocrisy, social hysteria and disorder, and eventually leads to individual frustration that sometimes ends with violent acts that are sometimes premeditated and prosecuted as domestic terrorism - cellular rebellion. Because some people believe that they know how to exploit the inadequacies in such a way that it will shock society to reorder the social order - "I'll teach them," is their rant. The problem being nobody has a reordering plan.
Yes, the Constitution is only useful if there are some honorable people in the government, and although, Trump is a business con-man, he is not a criminal. He used to patronize the presidential politicians for favors, just like many other rich people who contribute large sums of money to the politician's campaigns. He knows that Hillary Clinton is corrupt - she promised Trump that she would win in 2008, because she had the dirt on Obama. She lied and kept pushing the lie even after Obama was elected to the presidency.