Donald Trump loves NY but New York refuses to love him back
Donald Trump loves NY … but New York refuses to love him back
The president is making his first return trip since taking office to the city where he has lived nearly his entire life. He may be expecting a hostile reception
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People protest outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue during the ‘100 Days of Failure’ protest in New York, New York, on Saturday. Photograph: Alba Vigaray/EPA
After graduating from New York military academy in 1964, Donald Trump had dreams of attending film school in California. “I was attracted to the glamour of the movies,” he wrote in The Art of the Deal. “But in the end I decided real estate was a much better business.” Two years at the Wharton School in Philadelphia aside, that brief flirtation with Hollywood is the closest Trump ever came to leaving New York – until he became the 45th president of the United States and moved to Washington DC in January.
Since taking office, he has surprised many by staying away from the city that made him, while his wife, Melania, and young son Barron have remained in Trump Tower in Manhattan. But on Thursday, Trump will return to his home city for the first time since becoming president. He might not like what he finds. Despite having spent almost 70 years of his life in the Big Apple, stepping out on the town, cultivating and manipulating tabloid newspapers, and slapping his name on anything that didn’t move, he is widely unpopular in New York City.
Trump will be appearing with the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, aboard the USS Intrepid, an aircraft-carrier-turned-museum, in an event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea – a naval battle waged by the US and Australia against Japan during the second world war.
“We want him to know, and we want the world to know, that Trump’s values are not New York values,” said Joe Dinkin, a director with the progressive Working Families party and one of the organizers of the demonstration.“Trump has spent his first 100 days demonizing immigrants and Muslims and pushing a plan that would take healthcare away from millions of people,” Dinkin said. “We don’t want him to use a military setting, with New York City as a backdrop, as a kind of congratulatory press conference. We want the story to be about his real record.”
The president may well be expecting a hostile hometown reception.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/03/donald-trump-new-york-unpopularity
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