Do you think Trump's followers feel comfortable with Trump because they're smarter than him?

This just occurred to me. How did we go from a person of such high intelligence, almost genius, a Harvard graduate, someone who has had so many honors bestowed upon him because of his intelligence, to a bloviating, moronic wind bag who barely graduated with an associates degree, and who feels the need to brag about his own intelligence because God knows, no one else is.
In fact, I can’t even remember any Trump conservatives ever saying that Trump is intelligent. Do you think it makes his followers feel superior?