buffoon

He says he feels like he's the "bumbling buffoon" in the "walled garden that is traditional publishing" and that he's committed a kind of "literary heist".

The “buffoon” story comforts those who can’t face the professional competence behind the chaos.

Even if he contradicts himself or is caught in a lie or is shown to be the buffoon that he is, she will always hum his political tune.

Hoover would see Patel, correctly enough, as a buffoon and a patsy who was bending the FBI’s awesome machinery to the service of a mercurial president’s incoherent personal agenda.

“Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a ketamine-fueled buffoon in charge of purging the civil service.”