“Seeming meek” goes completely against his narcissistic nature. He didn’t plan his performance; he simply thought he was too good to prepare for it.
He hasn’t had to ‘prepare’ for anything in his whole life.
His coddled (some might say nefariously ‘guided’) upbringing, education and public office life has always been one of standing on his color and the backing he’s gotten from screening tacklers (media and otherwise) that clear the way for him.
The man who breezed through Columbia and Harvard, breezed into state office, US Senatorship and US Presidency via blame and the NOBEL prize all in the span a few years didn’t NEED preparation - He is god.
You summed it up better than I ever could have. Obama cruised through life on the “token system” and doesn’t realize that he never “earned” any of the positions or honors that he received. The one thing that actually makes him a victim is that he doesn’t know himself that he isn’t that smart and he doesn’t work that hard - his coddled existence made him buy into the spin that he is brilliant and likable even though it turns out that he is neither.