I don't understand how savvy folks, political observers like yourselves, deny – or is it that you simply overlook? – that in politics false narratives are manufactured. Often being the handy work of party operatives, and in the case of Democrats, with the aid and assistance of a complicit media and confederates in the news industry.
Donald Trump never has been, nor is he now, a con man.
You don't achieve the levels of success that this man has by being a phony, especially one whose been in the public eye over 40 years. It just doesn't work that way.
Anyway, Trump is a quick study and for a political novice, is giving substantiative, measured policy speeches now. Try ditching that false narrative and listen to one sometime.