It's the same mentality as tech bros. Privilege personified. His full-of-shitness was clear from his second response (to a question about him being so wrong): "But I was not so much interested in explaining why my number was right. I was interested in explaining why the other projections were wrong."
Charlie Brooker once described Trump as "'How hard can it be?' in a suit". One of the things his base admire him for, even the minority who are academics.
It's the same mentality as tech bros. Privilege personified. His full-of-shitness was clear from his second response (to a question about him being so wrong): "But I was not so much interested in explaining why my number was right. I was interested in explaining why the other projections were wrong."