I'll reproduce the author's points here for the sake of not giving a click >>First, Trump doesn't do any homework. As reported in my book, "Trump and his Generals," in early 2017 Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, told Trump's former national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, that Trump never studied an issue: "Trump is a guy who never went to class. Never got the syllabus. Never bought a book. Never took a note. >>second: He always believes he knows more than the experts about any given subject. >>Third, Trump trusts his own gut. >>Fourth, Trump has increasingly surrounded himself with a team of acolytes who will not challenge him. >>Fifth, it's hard for the public to believe a President who has made more than 16,000 false or misleading claims in his first three years in office, according to the Washington Post, at a time when the administration desperately needs the trust of the American public. >>Sixth, Trump always blames the messenger for news he doesn't like, and he has been doing a lot of that when it comes to the coronavirus. >>Seventh, Trump is the reverse of President Harry Truman. The buck never stops at Trump's desk. If things are going well, he is always ready to take credit: Stock market up, it's because of Trump; stock market down, it's because of the media -- and the Fed. If things go poorly it's always someone else fault. >>Eighth, Trump almost always plays the divider-in-chief, not the uniter-in chief.