Thank you, Miss Tick, for an opportunity to talk about this type of thing.
All my life, I have felt compelled to see or understand another person's way of understanding of how they see the world. Especially if we are not of the same social standing, or we speak in an unfamiliar language, or we do not share the same cultural orientation and/or those whose orientation to life widely differs from my own.
Kind of like the meme in the photo below:
But, to pick up from your opening post:
It bothers me greatly that particular personalities, celebrity or common day ordinary people, will seemingly, like Mr. Trump for example, share exceptionally abrasive attitudes and opinions which defy common sense or comes across as defiantly aggressive, like they don't care that they are taking a swipe at people who have suffered socially at the proverbial hands of injustice (...).
In close encounters, here at home, I do what I can to not respond to speech that feels hateful or to personalities who come across as attention seeking when they offer insensitive, abrasive, offensive, verbal or non-verbal communication.
What I tend to do is try to respond in ways which allows myself and the other to actually have some firm of intelligent communication, which hopefully inspires either of us to act in civil ways toward each other - even if we don't share the same point of view.
Some times I feel a certain level of success if either of us can take some part, or any, of it with us. The goal I trend toward is an building up, shoring up, of positive interpersonal ties with others who either share a similar point of view or with those whose point of view widely differs from that of my own.