You know full well what I mean, the bloke has made president of the USA. Unless you put that down to vast swathes of Americans being thick having voted for him.
I doubt he will go down in history as a genius, but I do think his fervent haters do somewhat wrongly have him down as some sort of epic dunce.
You seem to have confused being a useful figurehead for intelligence.
It's pretty much impossible to make an argument that Trump is intelligent. First and foremost just listen to him, he's incoherent, has the vocabulary of a 9 year old and cannot express any sort of complex thought.
Then there's the fact he's used legal coercion to suppress his school records because he's so ashamed of them, or that at the university his dad paid through the teeth for him to get into, his professor would regularly lament that he was the dumbest student he'd ever had the misfortune to teach.
We know he's lost his 9 figure inheritance, we know he's bankruptedalmost every business he's tried, we know he lost more money than any other American between 1984 and 1995, and we know that he's been living off 10 figure loans from Deutsche Bank guaranteed by Russian Billionaires who've most likely been using him and his name to launder money for 15 years.
The idea that he's intelligent because he got elected holds about as much weight as him being a genius businessman and self-made billionaire because that's what The Apprentice made him out to be. The program that used to film around things like his helicopter getting repossessed or buildings they were supposed to film in getting shut down because he couldn't pay his bills.
His entire life he's been a bullshitter, and one day TV executives realised that they could sell the bullshit to TV audiences. Then political advisers realised that the single most important factor in a US election is name recognition and he had tons of it, so they picked him up and sold him. Twice they failed, because democratic voters didn't take him seriously, so they had him swap to being a far right republican and found that their voter base was far more receptive of racist populism.
He's a puppet, not a genius.