The Caesar/Trump thing

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Throughout the entire clusterfuck surrounding the whole Julius Caesar play with the Trump lookalike at no point were the actual parallels between Julius Caesar and Donald Trump explored.

Here's what I've been bouncing around in my head at work.

Both Caesar and Trump are populists and rode a wave of support from the middle and working classes into power.
Both are symptoms of a hideously broken republic.
Both are hated by the upper classes that benefited from said broken system.
The upper classes of Ancient Rome and the United States both live in a bubble and are convinced that Caesar/Trump is widely hated.
The upper classes of Ancient Rome and the United States convinced themselves that killing Caesar/Trump would make them heroes of the people.
In both Caesar's and Trump's case, an assassination will lead to civil strife, civil war, and the final destruction of the republic.