>>Right. Therefore Trump is not a degenerate.

Therefore nothing. I'm disagreeing with Othering, labeling and undermining POTUS.

FWIW, I think I recognize who he his. I've met his like often over the years, as I'm sure you have too: an inheritor who attributes all success to personal prowess, as if mummy's or daddy's money had nothing to do with it. It's seen more widely among the population that was clever enough to be born in the boomer generation so that the home they bought now makes them wealthy, as if inflation (but not crushing national debt) is down to their own personal prowess. In the 1% this attitude is often accompanied by complacency and disdain for the muppets- and huge confidence on many subjects, including much better knowledge even than those who have called themselves students for decades. So yes, you might expect that of Trump - but I'm not entirely convinced he's displaying it. IMHO he's more along the reasonable spectrum than you allow credit, compared to some truly antisocial types who have denied pursuit of happiness to millions of American workers to line their own pockets more luxuriously.

But degenerate? Grant me an unedited .example.

How about racist? On results alone, he's less of a racist than the POTUS who told a fellow African American that there's no magic wand to bring back his job so he better learn new skills. Or more reasonably: neither of them is racist. Even if they were, the term is so overused that some think it now means "you disagree with me."

My view is that crying wolf for so long is an own goal. Trump now can get away with carefully timed wolf behavior, because people will assume it's just the next shriekfest against Bad Orange Man. Why would you want that?