Or they're just full of shit. I can think of at least half a dozen high profile occultists with 5-star reputations who are, in fact, just full of shit. Others, maybe slightly less so, like to rally troops and make big proclamations, but in reality their "skilled work" is little more than sending vibes at their night table covered in plastic deity dolls.
You haven't been an online occult veteran unless you've had at least 3 people hex you. And you know what happens? Every time? Not a goddamn thing. People who say they're going to hurt someone, whether by magic or some other means, are 99.9999999% of the time just venting and do nothing at all. The few who try, fail because they don't really know what they're doing. I think it's far more likely that TDS people with pink hair and a WitchTok account are delusional than to think Trump (or whoever else) has some magical protection.
In general, I don't believe that it is possible to harm any random person with magic, no matter how skilled you are. You can get people back for what they've done to you, or what they are doing, but you have no claim to hurt Putin or Trump or Obama or Alex Jones other than what the TV has fed you. If Trump personally kicks your dog, curse him and you'll see results... but trying to hex him for deporting foreign criminals etc, you have no personal claim and nothing in Heaven or Hell gives a shit that it upsets you.
		
		
	 
I do agree that a majority of occultists are full of shit. However, maybe it's in a difference in culture ( ATR ) but over here we do believe that you can harm any random person with magick. Advanced skilled or not. That's why it's common for people to hire a practitioner to preform curses, where it's not about the practitioner having personal claim it's simply transactional. 
Magick is neutral, spiritual beings are neutral, but Intention is the fuel. 
Spirits don't give a shit unless they're being properly compensated. They don't have a moral compass like humans, generally they don't care about human squabbling, but with the right offering...attention could be grabbed. petitions 
might be granted.
That being said, a majority of curses and hexes don't get granted because people aren't willing to fullfill the exchange necessary to get the petition granted. Many people aren't willing to do anything outside of surface level, vibing at the altar. If you want to cause physical harm to somebody using magick, it's very possible. However, you have to consider your targets own wards/ spirit guides/ court. Are you the practitioner genuinely willing to take it to heaven or hell to get your petition granted ? Do you have pacts with entities that would even bother granting such a petition? 
There's plenty of those negatively affected by Trump's policies. It would be foolish to think that he's not being mass hexxed right now by at the very least a handful of genuine covens whose families have been affected.
Do I think a random possibly novice "pink hair witchtok account" practitioner could successfully curse trump ? In all actuality no. 
Do I think a 
group of pink hair witchtok account practitioners could successfully curse trump if given an advanced grimoire ? Possibly. 
I think if you wanted to successfully hex somebody on Trump's level you would need sincere, advanced ceremonial magick, and a considerable exchange for the petition to be granted. This goes for even those who are simply mad at what they're witnessing on the tv. 
We do have some real world examples of Magick being successfully used in politics and war. I can think of two, but i'm sure there's more. 
Erzulie Freda being invoked by Haitian Vodou High Priestess Cecile Fatiman and Dutty Boukman to incite the Haitian Revolution. Many of the french on the island actually died of yellow fever before being killed by Haitian revolutionists. 
It's been said that the Kabbalah ritual "Pulsa diNura" was preformed on Israeli prime minster Yitzhak Rabin before he was assassinated. One of the rabbis involved did confirm that the ritual took place in 2011. 
So that being said, I don't think Trump is a practitioner upon reflection. I do believe he is however harnessing chaos magick albeit unintentionally/subconsciously. I do think he's being spiritually protected by christian nationalists / rabbis / accelerist occultists. I do think he picked up some parasitic entities through the course of his lifetime that would benefit off of him becoming a king and garnering a cult.