I'm pretty sure they did mean gravitas, exactly the "serious" kind of word that someone with the sound judgment of a windshield wiper would apply to Donald Trump. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/g...

To paraphrase Marshall "Bert and I" Dodge, I could take a sharp knife and a piece of knotty pine and whittle a person with more gravitas.

Or gravy.

Pretty sure both heads are empty.

They come up to me -- big, strong guys with tears in their eyes -- and they say, "sir, gravy is usually taken internally."