I wouldn’t call him an idiot......he’s a jerk
The Donald unquestionably has a very quick mind, he can marshal up statements without hesitation and use them convincingly. Whether everybody is convinced of the TRUTH of the statements he makes, is another thing, as sometimes they appear wildly overstated or simply do not square with “conventional wisdom”. But in just about every instance, later analysis of just what it was he said, proved to be spot on and far ahead of anybody else’s thinking.
Now as to the part where The Donald may also use a little (well, sometimes a LOT) of bombast, to the point of ridicule of the unfortunate who happened to cross his radar at the wrong angle of approach, he does come off as a jerk.
It is possible that The Donald may find himself on the short end of the stick, but this is a rarity and something that shall not happen to him twice.
The Donald may come off as a soft-hearted and overbearing conflation of bluster and sentimentality, but his underbelly is protected by the finest twenty-four-inch, cold-rolled, case-hardened, titanium-vanadium-tungsten, nickel-plated alloy steel armor plate available.