Not quite, Al - he's just smart enough to hire much smarter people to work for him, to bail him out of his screw-ups amd make him look good. That's always been the case.

He seems to have a penchant for stupidly cutting his employees off at the knees and making them look foolish- and this could come back to haunt him.

That doesn't mean I underestimate the potential damage the gang of
deplorables he's put together can do.