He’s not the leader of the western world. He’s a successful person who says what he thinks, doesn’t care what anyone else thinks, and believes this is a great country.
The media is trying to destroy him because he has a chance at winning, and they would lose their stranglehold on power. It will keep trying.
Trump may have a bombastic personality—so didn’t Teddy Roosevelt—but he is not dumb. You cannot build a huge empire as he did and be dumb. All the things I have heard him say so far make sense and represent main stream conservative views.