If there were only two choices, I would rather 'pretend' to be evil, than out of necessity, have to 'pretend' to be good.
Your preferred option certainly sounds like more fun, if only it were possible. But I fear that the fun of pretended evil would pretty soon infect the secret store of goodness and the fun lose its savour.
Yep, maybe.
Poor old Trump, both evil and stupid, is constantly racking his tiny brain to find something vacuous to tweet, while claiming to be a "stable genius". Some of the other horses in the barn may challenge the "stable genius" part of that tweet though.