I think ignorance plays a part, but my money is on he just doesn't care.
Infantilizing him might make it more relatable for the average person, but it's just click bait BS. We should call it like it is; He is a sociopath, and anything less is underestimating him. He has a brand and knows how to project it, and will do anything to get "ahead" and feed his ego. Collateral damage be damned.
I think Trump might defy the mainstream definition of intelligence and in a twisted and narrow sense he might have something approaching cunning and a primitive feedback loop modulating his speech like the YouTube algorithm, optimizing for one goal sacrificing everything else
