“Crazy Bastards” Is An Expression of Befuddled Respect

If Trump wanted to convey fierce disrespect or acidic disdain, the more appropriate “bastards”’ adjectives would have been “despicable” “godless”, “reptilian”, “seething”, “self-destructive”, etc.

“Crazy bastards” means “eccentric nutters with a genius scheme, or at least one I didn’t see coming”. Crazy as in wily, foxy, deceptive.