I think we're using different scales to measure competency.
I mean, Christ, we have good spray tans, I know we do.
Everything since has just been an inability to admit he was in over his head, plus trying to get out of trouble for all the crimes he did. He (and Clinton) just underestimated how susceptible the US was to a demagogue. If you look at his face after the win was announced on election night, and after the first meeting with Obama for the transition, I think it shows plainly on his face.
they're doing a fine job of screwing the world for their own gain, and/or working as sock puppets of foreign governments.
at no point was there ever a true belief, except for the "idjit" demographic, that trump would ever do anything meaningful in a governance sense.