Re: So you've missed out the big detail.
He really doesn't make them look amateurish. They have to avoid being caught when there are people who can catch them, he just has to say 'I'm the president' and the people mostly go away.
This is one of the reasons he's so scared of the election of course: if he loses then he's no longer president and he's utterly screwed. He either runs (to Russia probably) or he's in gaol for a long time.