Some of those greatest generation voted for these people. Quite a few of them, actually. The greatest generation denied just about everything they could to blacks, including GI Bill benefits to black soldiers returning from WW2.

While true, the worst of the lot is the Boomers. They grew up with everything handed to them in the wake of WW2 and turned around and ruined it for everyone else.

Trump is their tantrum that the Millennials are coming into their own and they are no longer culturally significant.