Political Weirdos

I just don't get how he is charismatic. I'm amazed people say this. At his best, his personality is oily car salesman (and I say this as someone who has relatives I love very much who sell cars) using vague generalities to praise himself or people he wants to boost. That's how Trump seemed to me twenty years ago. Now he's all that AND can't stay on topic for 15 seconds or answer literally any question without diverging into a rant on some other subject entirely.

Even his body language seems so calculated for "strength" or "power" or whatever. OH SHIT you steepled your fingers, I feel like I have to go along now, etc.

I find the guy to be a transparently awful performance artist at his best and a doddering barely coherent performance artist at his worst.

This is not because I hate his guts, this is just how he has always seemed to me.