The Long and the Short of Justin Trudeau's "Gaffes"

Andrew Coyne goes to great lengths to try to account for a "gaffe"-prone Justin Trudeau:

(T)he Trudeauvian gaffe generally involves a quite deliberate statement, presented not flippantly or off-hand but in a determined effort to sound provocative or profound. If they instead strike the listener as ill-judged, it is because he seems to have invested so little actual thought in them. It is in the gulf between his intellectual reach and grasp that his reputation as a ninny has been earned.

If you say so, Mr. C., but I can account for his ninniness (ninnytude?) with far more brevity: He's a moron.