A White hat would seek to empower the average person. A black hat seeks to kill or enslave the average person. A gray hat wants a situation where the average person has an okay life but where the gray hat himself still has significantly more power and wealth and information than the average person does. Trump and Putin are gray hats: for the most part their policies create a reasonably good quality of life for the people in their country, although they themselves would still have significantly more wealth and power and information than the average person, even after they retire from politics. If Trump and Putin were actual White hats, they'd donate most of their fortunes to charity and they would seek to release much more information to the public than they are currently doing. Gray hats in general see themselves as simply better than the average person and thus more deserving of wealth and information and power than the average person, and this is a position we disagree with.