Some day—when it’s all over—we’re going to have to admit that, as con artists go, Trump was one of the best. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/22/essential-cons-that-define-trumps-success/ …
This severely slights the truly great con artists, who fully deserve to be called "the aristocrats of crime." Trump owes his success as a con artist to the vast ignorance of his marks. When he addresses himself to persons who actually know something, he fails utterly to convince.