Gov. John Hickenlooper said on Wednesday that President Trump has taken a disruptive approach to governing, perhaps because of ulterior motives.

“Many of President Trump’s appointments were unorthodox. It’s hard to understand exactly what he’s trying to make, and some of it I’m guessing is just trying to create a kind of disruptive atmosphere,” Hickenlooper said to reporters.

“President Trump did not get a majority of Americans … It would suggest to me that you should look towards appointments and policies that recognize that you’re the president of the entire country, and not just a smaller cohort that casts the deciding votes in a small number of places.”

Hickenlooper has been no fan of Trump. As a top Hillary Clinton surrogate, who was mentioned as a possible Clinton running mate or cabinet member, Hickenlooper called Trump a “narcissistic fraud” on the campaign trail.

But the governor said he would like to see Trump succeed.

“I’m going to do everything I can to make Trump successful,” Hickenlooper said. “This is America. He won the election. We’re looking to try to do everything we can to make America and make Colorado successful, but we’re not going to compromise our basic values.”

In the less than two weeks since he’s been president, Trump has passed sweeping executive orders temporarily banning refugees from entering the United States and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The president temporarily froze environmental grants and contracts, which left Hickenlooper and the state health department in the dark over $28 million in annual funding.

And Trump continues to push for controversial cabinet appointments, including billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education, whose bid is in peril with bipartisan opposition.

“That’s why the media has taken such notice of President Trump’s appointments, because it is unusual to appoint people to be the head of agencies where they have little or no experience,” Hickenlooper said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad thing. Sometimes people can surprise you … but there is a sense … that it’s so startling in a way that it does seem like there’s an ulterior motive.

“It’s not just Democrats that are upset, there are a number of lifetime conservatives … alarmed at appointing people with no experience. The apparent disregard for the truth and facts, the really accelerated pace by which decisions are being made by a small number of people, that’s not typical.”

The governor also referred back to his proposed executive order over the summer, in which the governor considered enacting carbon pollution standards for the state, despite the federal effort being derailed in court. Republicans and the oil and gas industry quickly came down on Hickenlooper.

“All those same people that were decrying that I had the audacity to do an executive order, I don’t hear many of them right now worried about seven executive orders in 10 days,” Hickenlooper quipped.