if i wasn't clear...

look at this language carefully.

"I always knew he was very smart!"

it's the kind of language you hear from a used cars salesman, after he's sold you a car he knows is going to need thousands of dollars worth of work - or perhaps an art dealer, after she's sold you that abstract representation of a sneeze that's been sitting on the wall for thirty years.

what trump means to say is twofold.

1) he's succesfully grabbed putin by the pussy.
2)....because poor vlad is just not that bright.