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No way.

Trump is no idiot - I estimate his IQ being 115–120, he has a university degree and he was not a total failure as a businessman - but he is no genius either. He is incredibly narcissistic - like South Park Eric Cartman grown old - which distorts the scene here.

But Trump is no genius either. He does not produce coherent text, he does not have any kind of intuition, he does not have any kind of psychologic eye and he cannot read his opponents. He does not know what he is up to nor against to. He does not care of his nation nor his country. He cares only of himself.

The only way such man in a leadership position can lead is by bullying his subordinates - which he actually did. “You’re fired” could actually be his slogan. He is simply so unpredictable that his opponents have hard time figuring out what he is up to next, and whether it is sheer idiocy, mere stupidity - or a genius stroke.

Hitler was evil but he wasn’t corrupt. He wouldn’t like being compared to someone who is corrupt - like Donald Trump. Moreover, Trump lived all his presidency on the verge of getting ousted - there were always a lot of more intelligent and more ambitious Republicans ready to backstab him, if for nothing else, to save the Grand Old Party from a total disaster.

Compared to Trump, my estimation is that Hitler had at least one standard deviation higher IQ. Hitler was a hallmark of a self-made man. He literally rose from the gutters to leadership of a superpower. He was an autodidact, he had incredibly wide general knowledge and he impressed everyone around him. He worked both hard and smart, he knew his opponents thoroughly, he read the newspapers thoroughly, he had a library of some 3,000 books and he was a decorated war veteran. And men like Göring, Himmler, Heydrich and Bormann considered him a genius. After the Night of the Long Knives, he did not need to resort to physical or social violence one single time.

But having high IQ does not make anyone a good human being nor it does not make him dignified, noble or decent. It is only the great enabler - both in good and in evil. Hitler was no moron - he was a crackpot. That is not what Trump is, fortunately. Trump is merely a jerk.

TL;DR: Hitler was Mensa stuff, but so was Ted Bundy. Trump isn’t.