And I've known some genuinely bad people. Trump is a pig and a sociopath, if not for being born Ito wealth he'd be in prison or dead.

Trump was his idol as far back as the 90's.

I knew him quite well through one of his (semi) legitimate businesses. Everything from the "business acumen" to the treating of women like meat sacks for sex. The similarities are really key bad of scary. Even the style of speech and the way business is conducted, the narcissism, the trophy wives, even the porn shoots. And definitely the cocaine.

the only place I had to work with people like Trump was in China. The school I taught at was lousy with expat men who moved there because Chinese women were "low maintenance" and who sat around the break room talking about how Western women were all fat feminazi slobs who were bitter because they couldn't get laid (except, conversely, they also refused to sleep with the men in question who were all uniformly overweight, over 40 and well below average in attractiveness).

One guy in particular said he couldn't wait to move back to the States and mooch off his hard-working Chinese wife, bragged about beating his kids and said it was a shame his sons had to be half-Asian and therefore have such small dicks. He also bragged about how smart he was to blow off his student loans.

$100 says if I tracked him down now he'd be a Trump supporter.

In the Army and in college dorms. But that was a half century ago--about where Trump remains.

I've always felt that boys who inherit or stand to inherit a fortune never really have to give a shit about what anybody else thinks or feels and thus may never develop much moral character or social inhibition. One common meeting place for those types is the frat house.

They rose to a certain level through their braggadocio and willing to stab others in the back. They got near the throne, but never on it. They never made it to CEO. But they did well for themselves, sometimes drove the business into the ground while lining their pockets, created a toxic workplace, but they ended up financially OK. Perhaps pariahs, but wealthy.

One restaurant manager I worked for called his girlfriend his "wool." It was soon after Bull Durham came out.
There were plenty of others I knew from HS.

I went back in the 60s and there was one rich bully smart ass I remember well. Had to have been cut from the same cloth.

It's crawling with them.

Did you ever see the South Park episode on New Jersey? Every bit of it is true. This state should be quarantined.