Despite your opinions about other things, Donald Trump does have ironclad confidence (perhaps too much, though) and that is one of his traits that make him so effective and powerful (despite quirks).
My father, who was quite powerful, but not highly aware in psychology, jokingly said "I am not always right, but I am never uncertain."
The question is not about who's right and who's wrong, but about what we can learn from this.
It is certain, I think, maybe, perhaps, that one must learn the skill of Psychological Certainty and The Certainty Generators, for they will help one begin the journey to full Self-Confidence, which anybody can build.. Note that we do not need to be at "ironclad", but just to be at "Sufficient Certainty".
The School Of Life has this one chapter (in their free online huge philosophy book) on Self Confidence.
The introduction starts like this:
"The topic of confidence is too often neglected by serious people: we spend so much time acquiring technical skills, so little time practising the one virtue that will make those skills effective in the world.
We tend to regard the possession of confidence as a matter of slightly freakish good luck. Some people simply are very confident, we believe, for reasons that neuroscientists may one day uncover, but there isn’t much we can do about our particular situation. We are stuck with the confidence levels we were born with. This isn’t in any way true.".
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