Since Nixon, the media has presented every Republican president as a crook, dunce, dimwit, klutz or illiterate and every dim as the brightest guy since Einstein.
Set the fact checkers loose on that one.
Remember how the Soviets used to rave about Lenin's incredible brain? Then when he died and they studied it, it was the brain of a criminally insane person. With Hemisphere's so devoid of convolutions they were almost smooth.