New York Icon Explains Exactly What Trump’s Hometown Really Thinks Of Him | EUROtoday

Author and New York cultural icon Fran Lebowitz needs folks to cease associating President Donald Trump with the town she loves.

“The thing that makes New Yorkers the angriest about Trump is that other people think he’s a New Yorker,” she informed Australia’s “Good Weekend Talks” podcast final week. “New Yorkers do not think that. New Yorkers don’t think that. We never thought that.”

Lebowitz informed host Amanda Hooton that Trump, who was born in New York and spent a lot of his life as a metropolis resident, has by no means gained the town in any of his three presidential runs.

“He never even comes here because he’s so hated,” stated Lebowitz, who’s the topic of the Netflix collection “Pretend It’s A City,” which is an acerbic love letter to New York City.

Trump modified his residency to Florida in 2019 and infrequently returns to his former hometown. When he does, Trump is usually greeted by protesters, and his Trump Tower is a well-liked website for demonstrations, whether or not he’s there or not.

“It’s a hated building,” Lebowitz stated, calling it a “piece of junk he built on Fifth Avenue.”

Later within the interview, Lebowitz added that she is going to by no means forgive the president.

“He’s unforgivable, all right? No one should ever forgive him,” she stated, then referenced his ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV. “Not that I speak for the pope, but it doesn’t sound to me like the pope’s going to be forgiving him either. And the pope’s job is forgiving. That’s his whole profession.”

Lebowitz has by no means minced phrases in relation to Trump.

“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid,” she informed The Guardian in 2018. “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

See her full interview with “Good Weekend Talks” beneath: