Trump seems to be someone who fantasizes himself such an Ayn Randian captain of industry that he can literally shape reality.  Obviously those sorts of delusions play well when you have surrounded yourself with a coterie of sycophants and yes men for decades (i.e. see similar delusional thinking, if more understated, from Team Hillary), but it works less well when you actually have to convince masses of people who aren't depending on you for a paycheck to drink deep of the spiked koolaid you're peddling.  Outside the inbred end of the sheeple herd grazing on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, et al,. he's just coming across as a comical, sad exercise in self-parody.