I think a good portion of his audience and by virtue of that, his empathy/shame, is growing so irritated at his midwit centric attentions that there now needs to be an adult in the room. He's supposed to be the adult though.
Also, the "experience" of this midwittedness that many have is deserving of its own generalized dialogue. Lest credence is given to the phenomena of "politicians sound weird"— that is, he an intellectual politician of which observers of such do all the subsequent cynical rigmarole behooving of the common man to his pragmatic authority.
I'm not gonna be the adult. Just sayin, wtf is this shit.