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If you didn't see the movies at the same time you were aware of who Trump was, what he looked like, and what his business plan stood for, you don't necessarily get the connection. If you're younger, the connection may not happen because BTTF is "1980s" and Trump is right here, right now. Or, yet Alternatively, you may just think Trump, Biff, and every other person in that social class just looked like that in the 80s
Trump was all over the media at that time, he was basically the archetype of the rich American villain in every 80s and 90s movie. Some More News did like a 2 hour video about it.
He was literally in Home Alone 2.
I'm glad it was obvious for you. It wasn't for me. Aside from Biff being an existing 1985/1955 character prior to "Trump" Biff, the retrofuturistic dystopian 1985 in BTTF2 may as well be the decade before Robocop picks up in the same universe. It all looks the same to me, so I'm in the "that's what the 80s looked like" boat. I offered alternative, reasonable options for why not everyone made the connection as well as you did. I mean, I bet more than half the people on this platform were born after Home Alone 2. Our classics are not their classics.