Actually, Trump is a conspicuously unsuccessful businessman. Again, as a reminder, his return on equity has been about half what you'd have gotten with a simple S&P 500 index fund over the same time. You could literally have had an "investor" in a persistent vegetative state for that whole time and he still would have gotten richer twice as fast as Trump did during that era, simply by letting daddy's money sit in a portfolio. I'm not saying Trump is the very worst businessman in America, but he's certainly got an unusual talent for failure.
Certainly he has a low talent for communicating false promises to dumb people -- the twits who lost their savings on Trump University, or bought into one of his dying resorts in time for him to cash out and bankrupt the place, or the dunderheads who voted for him. So, to the extent those are the people he has to communicate with, for his scams to work, then yes, he's good at communicating to them. He speaks idiot natively.
He's not as good at communicating with educated people, business leaders, foreign leaders, and fellow American politicians, which has given rise to the chaos of his administration.
Trump's not big on keeping his promises. By one count, he broke 80 of them just in his first 100 days.
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trumps-100-days-of-broken-promises-a4c116bbb2b4/
It will be tough for him to go down in history as our very worst president, just due to the stiff competition from the likes of Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Hoover. But I expect he'll end up fighting GW Bush for the title of the worst president of the modern era.
First, if he went to college as a foreign student, that would have been all the more impressive. US colleges give preferential admission to US students. Competition among foreign students is incredibly intense. For example, MIT admits 10.8% of domestic applicants, versus 3% of international students. If Obama, for no reason, decided to raise the difficulty bar for himself by claiming to be a foreign student, then his academic career looks even stronger.
As for the notion he was on a virtual free ride and didn't attend many classes or learn much, what makes you think that?
The first big poll of historians following the end of Obama's presidency has him ranked as the 12th-greatest president in our history. That sounds about right. Although his time wasn't one of across-the-board success like Clinton's, it was pretty good, and it looks all the better when you remember that he inherited an economy in absolute free-fall, as well as two terrible bloodbaths in the Middle East. I assume that, long-term, he'll go down in the books somewhere in the top third of presidents, having succeeded at most things he turned his focus to.
I also think that, like Clinton before him, he'll end up looking better with time, because his successor will be so bad. Clinton ranked 24th the year he left office. But then Bush reminded us that good leadership in the White House isn't something we can take for granted, and Clinton started looking better and better in retrospect. By 2009, he was up to 15th, and he's even charted as high as eighth. With the context of Trump's hateful incompetence, Obama is likewise likely to look better with time.
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