I consider myself a pretty smart guy. Of course, I have a huge ego that really does not need massaging. Thus, when I run into a situation where I should have picked up on something long before I did is disconcerting, to say the least. This is the situation when it dawned on me that Candidate Trump was a realist, a pragmatist and really had no real ideology guiding his thinking. When I read four of his books and edited the book he published during the campaign, it hit me like a safe dropped from the fourth floor of a building. When the clue bird landed on my shoulder, my help for the candidate improved exponentially. He liked what I wrote and what I said. He must have as he kept me on all the way into the administration.