Depends on who he’s dealing with. I’m sure he can be quite charming as well as disarming. Think Clinton. If BJ didn’t have Hillary around he’d have been more successful. Instead he had to behave like a functional republican to get things done.
He was able to get Hannity to suck up to him.
Once upon a time, long long ago, I had occasion to visit a rather large political function where President Clinton was the featured speaker.guest.
(Don’t ask)
Anyway, he did a credible speaking job. But his wife was obviously drunk and she was calling him all kinds of dirty names right there in front of the public. Billy’s face was distressed and obviously red as a beet with embarrassment. He literally (almost) oozed, morphed trying to hide from her wrath.. he was literally hugging the wall trying, it seemed, to escape her by slipping through the wall like a ghost.
(It didn’t work, but the captured mass media didn’t report the incident.)
As my Father said, it was no surprise Billy found other “companionship”