Clinton could play the Saxophone, after that I am struggling to think of any politicians able to demonstrate a useful skill.

Programming might not be that hard to pick up if you had done it before, couldn't this code have been written on a 25 year old computer to compile with a Borland era compiler?

Because the wider population don't understand programming and see it as magic, I fully expect his popularity to do well, he is practically a hacker in their eyes, able to conjure up magic and demonstrate skill.