Trump isn't smart,intellectual by any means but he DOES have a natural predator's instinct for sensing weakness/vulnerabilities in his victims/MAGA masses and will instinctively say/do things to appeal to that weakness in order to get what he wants-votes/money -along with his malignant narcissusum,greed,sociopathic/psychopathic psyche-he is formidable in that regard and can't be underestimated in any regard.He's no ordinary human being-thankfully he's aging/declining rapidly-dementia et al.
More like US Politics have devolved into the adult version of Mean Girls where popularity must be maintained via appeals to the lowest common denominator.