why residents of NYC vehemently dislike trump

[SleeplessinSoCal]

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.

[hrmjustin]

1. He destroyed the skyline of NYC with his monstrosities!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. that is the tip of the iceberg.

Read the article.

[phylny]

3. I'm originally from Long Island,

and worked in Manhattan from 1977 through June of 1985. We all knew exactly who he was early on.

[SharonAnn]

4. visited Trump Tower many, many years ago. Unbelievable vulgarity.

[JI7]

5. Trump is pretty much what you think of when you think of the worst sleazy stereotypes of NYC

[SleeplessinSoCal]

7. I truly never thought it possible for the Bible Belt to support him.

What I hadn't counted on was their very inclination towards buying holy snake oil would make them vulnerable to Trumpism.

[pangaia]

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

(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]

24. Newt Gingrich spent practically his whole congressional career saving...

...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.]

6. Vanity Fair Had It Right

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]

8. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves?

That is what I would pick as their theme song. Sing it every time one of them makes an appearance.

[Maynar]

10. I see your point but

I think it does disservice to gypsies, tramps and thieves everywhere.

jmho

[pangaia]

14. Also, the Roma people don't like being called gypsies...

Of course there is still Sarasate's ZIGEUNERWEISEN, AND zigeuner schnitzel,......

[Maynar]

30. Also, the Roma people don't like being called gypsies...

Yes, definitely this.

[Me.]

22. Instead Of Hail To The Chief

[Historic NY]

9. The country will get sick of him in due time.

[elleng]

12. Unfortunately, 'due time' isn't soon enough.

[moondust]

11. Drumpfy didn't win his home state?

Or even his hometown?




Remember when that was such a yuge f-ing deal for Al Gore?

[zentrum]

15. We in

….New York grew up with his grotesque buildings ruining whole neighborhoods, even from a great distance. The tackiness. The ugliness.

[Feeling the Bern]

16. I grew up in NY and lived there for 20 years. Why do we hate him?

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]

18. So why did he not get taken down by institutions tasked with stopping fraud long ago??

NOW the NY Attorney General is going after him, but surely there was plenty of reason to do so years ago.

[Feeling the Bern]

21. Bribes work well in the NY Government still using the Patroon System.

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]

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

http://fortune.com/2016/07/27/michael-bloomberg-donald-trump-con-man/

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]

19. "Glitzy on the outside, cheap and defective on the inside."

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]

23. The Trumps are considered bridge and tunnel posers

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]

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

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]

29. the poser part might actually endear him and his family to most outsiders.

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]

20. Yes, they elected the town scumbag (nt)

[Justice]

26. I thought Bloomberg's convention speech conveyed this very well.

[uponit7771]

27. +1,"Trump is the human equivalent of those counterfeit Rolex "

[Generator]

28. Bridge and tunnel without the class or sense of humor

That's donnyputin.