Well put. His whole life is pretense on several levels at the same time. So far he has got by learning how to put alien ideas into familiar language so that normal folk will accept them. He has always been a mouthpiece and a conduit for the ideas of others. Hence, the teleprompter he can never be without.
He hasn't done a day's work since he's been in office; he goes from speech to vacation to speech and on to another vacation. Other people write the bills and feed him the words he has to speak.
I agree that he is a strange amalgam of muslim, marxist, with layers of psychological problems on top of it all. But he can mimic normal well enough in public that as long as he doesn't have to think on his feet he can get by.
Sometimes I think back about GW Bush. He was always better when speaking straight from the heart than he ever was speaking from a teleprompter. I didn't agree with a lot of his policies but he was and is a genuine human being.
Watching some of the video clips of Bush from this weekend remind me of what a genuinely decent man he was, mistakes warts and all.
Yes, Bush was decent and represented a sort of traditional US decency. But I was thinking just the other day that somehow Bush and his world now seem so far away, like part of another universe. So many very negative and very permanent changes have occurred in that short time since he left office that it now seems as if he was president decades ago (to me, at least).