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What do you think class is?

Class is determined by one's role in society.

Working people are working class, and Donald Trump is not one of them.

Owning people are "owning class" also called "bourgeoise" and Donald Trump is one of them.

"Lower class" and "upper class" are nonsense Americanisms.

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I think it's reasonable to assume one's "role in society" can extend beyond their economic utilization.

It can, but it's always predominated by their social relationship to the material means of production, which makes that relationship the primary determinant of their role in reproducing society. As such, one who sells their labor for a wage has a role that is most fundamentally different to that of one who controls (owns) the material means necessary to convert that labor into value.

I'm pretty sure they're not uniquely Americanisms, and thatwe got those from the old country, where there was the landed gentry and literal lords and kings and queens in the upper class, with peasants, serfs, in the lower classes. It wasn't until the French grew fed up with the system that it underwent a revolutionary change.

There's still a House of Lords (upper class) and a House of Commons (lower class) in the UK.

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