So you're justifying this stupidity by pointing to other stupidity, Forrest Gump's Mother was right, stupid is what stupid does.
Nice attempt at putting words in my mouth, The President needs to know those things that a leader needs to know; how to communicate his vision, how to put the right people in the right places, how to align his senior staff to his vision, how to ask the right questions among other things, not whatever random trivia the partisan hacks come up with to generate their daily dose of gotcha click-bait to vomit down the throats of the squawking hyper-partisan chicks.
If you understood what it is that leaders actually are meant to do you wouldn't have such a hard time understanding the point and thus would spend less time on meaningless minutiae and more time coming up with something worthwhile to say.
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." -- Warren Bennis