There are people all over the globe who are businessmen, and builders at that. Even the Saudis build stuff. How is this something that makes him uniquely special?
True enough, but you have to factor in Trump's operating in THIS country, in THIS market, and by THIS set of standards. That, in and of itself places him in the forefront of the best of the best at what he does.
As Dinesh D'Sousa has observed, you can go to deepest Africa and you will find some kid wearing a Chicago Bulls cap. THAT is how pervasive American exceptionalism and cultural hegemony is throughout the globe. They may not like us, but they still aspire to be us.
And Donald Trump is thoroughly and unapologetically, American.
If we EVER want to have a national leader with "American" legibly written on his soul, as opposed to value structures imposed by administrative bureaucracies and academic segregationists, Trump is our best chance.