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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswhy residents of NYC vehemently dislike trump
Why do residents of NYC vehemently dislike Trump?
Simple: we know him. Weve watched his low-class act for too long. We scanned his soul with our hard-won schmuck radar and hes failedrepeatedly.
One of the formative experiences of moving to New York is, or at least used to be, finding yourself prey for bad people with good lines of talk. The guy who tried and sell you dubiously authentic drugs in Washington Square park, the 3-card monte operators on 14th Street, the street-calloused sexual predators who flocked around the NYU dorms every September hoping to scam some dewy Iowa-born freshman girl into a blowjobthey are all part of New Yorks venerable Ganef/Rube ecosystem. If you survive this hazing, you learn to profile every potential perp, con artist and time-waster as a human type: Homo Schmuckius or Homo Griftus respectively. In this schema, Trump is the human equivalent of those counterfeit Rolex watches they try and sell you on Canal Street: glitzy on the outside, cheap and defective on the inside.
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https://www.quora.com/Why-do-residents-of-New-York-City-so-vehemently-dislike-Trump/answer/Jim-Ryan-16?ref=fb
This is my experience, having put up with him from 1976-1998.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,517 posts)Read the article.
phylny
(8,510 posts)and worked in Manhattan from 1977 through June of 1985. We all knew exactly who he was early on.
SharonAnn
(13,834 posts)JI7
(90,115 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,517 posts)What I hadn't counted on was their very inclination towards buying holy snake oil would make them vulnerable to Trumpism.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)(I doubt they even know there more to NY then NYC), call it a a den of iniquity, and such, they voted for exactly what you said.. THEIR stereotype of NYC.)
JHB
(37,291 posts)...the Good People of Cobb County Georgia (tm) from the threat of the Peoples' Republic of Escape From New York (tm).
At least, that's what his campaigns sounded like.
Of course, he's a publicist for the Kremlin Don Show now.
Me.
(35,454 posts)LOng ago when they called him a short-fingered vulgarian. He and his family of grifters have long been recognized as cheaters and thieves.
murielm99
(31,235 posts)That is what I would pick as their theme song. Sing it every time one of them makes an appearance.
Maynar
(769 posts)I think it does disservice to gypsies, tramps and thieves everywhere.
jmho
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Of course there is still Sarasate's ZIGEUNERWEISEN, AND zigeuner schnitzel,......
Maynar
(769 posts)Yes, definitely this.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Historic NY
(37,723 posts)elleng
(134,881 posts)moondust
(20,317 posts)Or even his hometown?
Remember when that was such a yuge f-ing deal for Al Gore?
zentrum
(9,866 posts)
.New York grew up with his grotesque buildings ruining whole neighborhoods, even from a great distance. The tackiness. The ugliness.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)BECAUSE WE SAW THROUGH HIS SHIT AND HIS ACT AND REALIZED HE WAS A FUCKING ASSHOLE 25 YEARS AGO!!!
Why the rest of these idiot motherfuckers in the country that voted for this clown didn't see is because they are too lost to intelligence and just as fucking assholish as he is!
lostnfound
(16,469 posts)NOW the NY Attorney General is going after him, but surely there was plenty of reason to do so years ago.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)All you gotta do is buyoff either the Speaker of the Assembly, the Speaker of the Senate or the Governor.
Cuomo had a budget to deal which was more important, as did Koch
Pataki sucked Trump's dick, as did Ghouliani
Then there was the Spitzer/successor bullshit. . .and Bloomberg was just as much a dick sucker as Ghouliani and Pataki
So, now Cuomo the second is doing it.
Lady_Chat
(561 posts)And not just that, we all know the stories about him hiring illegals, so he doesn't have to pay a union or minimum wage, and will threaten to deport them, if they don't do what they are told.
He's been known to stiff workers (and they're legal) he hires them, has them do the work, then refuses to pay them the agreed amount. Tells them their work wasn't satisfactory, and they can sue him, or they can get paid half of what was promised....that's their choice.
He was known for his bigotry, even sued by the DOJ, for housing and civil rights violations.
His own lawyers have sued him.
While Hillary wrote the first bill to protect our 1st responders, which later became the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act, Trump lent no support. Never did anything to help it get passed. Nothing. Only bragged about his building now being the tallest in the city. Never attended one 9/11 Memorial service, or the Museum, until 9/11/16, when he was running for president.
The woman he called a "fat, ugly, pig" Rosie O'Donnell, gave 1 million dollars to the city , the day after the attack. Trump? He complained his businesses got damaged and filed a claim for $152,000. It was later learned this was not true, nothing of his had been damaged.
So sad that people actually fell for and voted for this huckster.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)A perfect description of the Trump family if there ever was one.
I was a New Yorker for 12 years and Donald Trump was always looked down upon. He will never be accepted into the NY elite no matter how much money he has or how much power he gains. New Yorkers can spot a poser a mile away. He will never be anything but a joke.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Not old money NY. Big difference. They can buy their way in, but they will always be looked down on. Much the same as the quants on Wall Street being looked down on by the 3rd generation investment bankers.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)than anything. He doesn't seem to understand that he can't buy his way into society.
BTW, Welcome to DU and I love your name!
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,517 posts)It's the way he does business, and his complete lack of awareness that stymies. How is he remotely like anything anyone wants in a POTUS?
We seem to be in a self destruct mode. I read people parrot his phrases about our being in decline. Russia is in decline. They want what we have and may well get it thanks to our electoral college that is meant to be a safeguard from a trump.
jumptheshadow
(3,303 posts)Justice
(7,193 posts)uponit7771
(91,182 posts)Generator
(7,770 posts)That's donnyputin.