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SleeplessinSoCal

(10,435 posts) Thu Dec 29, 2016, 12:23 AM Dec 2016

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Why do residents of NYC vehemently dislike Trump?

Simple: we know him. We’ve watched his low-class act for too long. We scanned his soul with our hard-won schmuck radar and he’s failed—repeatedly.

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 blowjob—they are all part of New York’s 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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This is my experience, having put up with him from 1976-1998.

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why residents of NYC vehemently dislike trump [View all] SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2016 OP

He destroyed the skyline of NYC with his monstrosities! hrmjustin Dec 2016 #1

that is the tip of the iceberg. SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2016 #2

I'm originally from Long Island, phylny Dec 2016 #3

visited Trump Tower many, many years ago. Unbelievable vulgarity. SharonAnn Dec 2016 #4

Trump is pretty much what you think of when you think of the worst sleazy stereotypes of NYC JI7 Dec 2016 #5

I truly never thought it possible for the Bible Belt to support him. SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2016 #7

Funny isn't it.. As much as rhe repubs claim to hate New YorkCity, pangaia Dec 2016 #13

Newt Gingrich spent practically his whole congressional career saving... JHB Dec 2016 #24

Vanity Fair Had It Right Me. Dec 2016 #6

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves? murielm99 Dec 2016 #8

I see your point but Maynar Dec 2016 #10

Also, the Roma people don't like being called gypsies... pangaia Dec 2016 #14

Also, the Roma people don't like being called gypsies... Maynar Dec 2016 #30

Instead Of Hail To The Chief Me. Dec 2016 #22

The country will get sick of him in due time. Historic NY Dec 2016 #9

Unfortunately, 'due time' isn't soon enough. elleng Dec 2016 #12

Drumpfy didn't win his home state? moondust Dec 2016 #11

We in zentrum Dec 2016 #15

I grew up in NY and lived there for 20 years. Why do we hate him? Feeling the Bern Dec 2016 #16

So why did he not get taken down by institutions tasked with stopping fraud long ago?? lostnfound Dec 2016 #18

Bribes work well in the NY Government still using the Patroon System. Feeling the Bern Dec 2016 #21

"I'm a New Yorker, and I know a con when I see one." Lady_Chat Dec 2016 #17

"Glitzy on the outside, cheap and defective on the inside." smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #19

The Trumps are considered bridge and tunnel posers HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #23

Yes, they will never fit in with the old money NY and I think that is what Trump wants more smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #25

the poser part might actually endear him and his family to most outsiders. SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2016 #29

Yes, they elected the town scumbag (nt) jumptheshadow Dec 2016 #20

I thought Bloomberg's convention speech conveyed this very well. Justice Dec 2016 #26

+1,"Trump is the human equivalent of those counterfeit Rolex " uponit7771 Dec 2016 #27

Bridge and tunnel without the class or sense of humor Generator Dec 2016 #28