But I don't for a second believe Trump is an idiot,...

I do. Absolutely. I'd match my brainpan against his any day of the week. He's a mental midget.

That doesn't mean he doesn't have some skills/talents. You have enumerated them elsewhere. But from an intellectual standpoint, he's an idiot. And from a wisdom standpoint, too. He possesses neither.

Apparently, he has been a bully his entire life. Numerous folks from his past say so (including classmates at the military school he attended). I think that fits. He's the bully who couldn't hack it, so he bullied his way through. He would beat up the smart kids because he wasn't a smart kid. He was a loser who inherited daddy's money, and then cast everyone else as the losers.

If he hadn't inherited money, he'd be nowhere. Just another bum looking to make the next "big score" that never happens.