Leaving aside religious connotations, I would say evil is intentionally doing harm to us or people & things we care about for selfish & self centered reasons. We might differentiate between an evil act & an evil person.

Someone may do an evil act in a truly desperate situation, say when their life is threatened, but that doesn't necessarily make them an evil person. Evil people do evil acts habitually & unprovoked. They take no responsibility for the consequences of their evil acts & blame others.

Does this sound like Trump?

I agree. Some people do evil things because they are stupid & some because they are smart. To my mind, Trump is a puppet of Putin, who is using his vanity & greed to manipulate him.

Moscow Mitch also knows where his bread is buttered. He lifted sanctions against Putin oligarch Oleg Derapaska's aluminum co, then Derapaska made a 200 million "investment" in Kentucky, McConnell's home state. What else did Derapaska do for Moscow Mitch?

Stupid or smart, both these suspected traitors belong doing hard time in the slammer.

I think it is a matter of degree. Anyone who runs for public office, especially high public office, requires a powerful ego & so may be said to be narcissistic. Narcissism runs on a scale from mild to toxic. If they're smart they hide their narcissism behind a pretended concern for the public.

But they are usually not really too concerned for the public & are highly manipulative, which means they are somewhat sociopathic. Such people can appear very charming & many people are attracted to them. They say when you met Hitler or Stalin in person, they were very charming.

But they are generally not anti social. When they are running for office, they may talk about shaking things up if it helps them get elected, but once they are in office, they generally are very concerned about preserving the status quo, as doing so preserves their power.

Donald Trump is on w whole other order of magnitude from most leaders in world history. The only ones I would compare him to are those like Caligula, Hitler, & Stalin. It's true he hasn't killed millions of people yet, but give him time, as he has nuclear weapons

@Remiforce Yep I think that is about right. Having said that I doubt orange one has the personal charm that the other three monsters you list were famed for.

trump really can't help who he is. This is not to excuse what he says and does. He just doesn't have the intelligence, talent, or personality traits to be President. mitch knows what he is doing. mitch thinks about this shit. trump just reacts. trump does evil. mitch is evil.