Not all rich presidents are bad. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45) was born into wealth and lived a pampered, spoiled life. But he lived his life in service of the poor. He and his wife Eleanor used to visit the poor and support charities for the poor. (Eleanor then became our ambassador to the UN where she became a champion of human rights, helping pass things like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.) And when he became president he passed laws which had the federal government take an unprecedented role in helping the poor, and he raised taxes on the rich. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was always a hero of mine, and so is his wife.
It bothers me his legacy isn't more tainted by executive order 9066. He did a lot of great things, but locking up an entire demographic of American citizens without due process seems like something more out of trump's playbook.
No president is perfect. Every president before Lyndon Baines Johnson would be a pretty obvious racist by modern standards. Woodrow Wilson talked like a racist, and I recently found out a lot of his policies were racist too. But Wilson got the most reform done than any president before or since. Washington and Jefferson were both "great" presidents, and they got a lot done too. Washington brought prestige and legitimacy to the new strong, central government and Jefferson tried to limit the power of the federal government. Which would be called states' rights, a pretty racist position today. (BTW Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party is the forerunner of today's Democratic Party.)
And the World War II internment of Japanese Americans really made little sense. People thought they were going to infiltrate and overthrow the US government. The Japanese were trying to. But Japanese Americans were Americans, so why would they? FDR basically showed very poor judgement on that one. And I still don't know why.