Obama was NEVER a business man-—never in the Real world. He has always been in a Marxist wet dream and drugged and leaching off of others and a complete fraud (liar).
Politician. Absolutely. Both Trump and Obama are politicians (able to lie and cheat). Neither are Statesmen. As Aristotle stated we are all “political animals”.
That’s Life. Trump knows how to wheel and deal inside the Marxist world we live in.....all cartel system????? Our legal system is-—has been since the Robber Barons—we just didn’t realize it....we “thought” the big “Trust Busters” took care of the cartel (bribery) system-—but instead our “legal” system set up “foundations” and money-laundering schemes and banking schemes, so that all ideas/universities and textbooks and newspapers (APs) and MSM could be totally controlled by a few elites.
I would say both Obama and Trump have confused our system of government with a Monarchy....maybe authoritarianism has lead to success in the private sector where the goal is pretty straightforward (gather all the chips on the table)
but Im not so sure it a successful strategy for a President who will have 2 other co equal branches of Government to contend with.