{"id":216284,"date":"2026-05-01T03:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216284\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:26:23","slug":"new-york-icon-explains-exactly-what-trumps-hometown-really-thinks-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216284\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Icon Explains Exactly What Trump’s Hometown Really Thinks Of Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author and New York cultural icon Fran Lebowitz wants people to stop associating President Donald Trump<\/a> with the city she loves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing that makes New Yorkers the angriest about Trump is that other people think he\u2019s a New Yorker,\u201d she told Australia\u2019s \u201cGood Weekend Talks<\/a>\u201d podcast last week. \u201cNew Yorkers do not think that. New Yorkers don\u2019t think that. We never thought that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Lebowitz told host Amanda Hooton that Trump, who was born in New York and spent much of his life as a city resident, has never won the city in any of his three presidential runs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe never even comes here because he\u2019s so hated,\u201d said Lebowitz, who is the subject of the Netflix<\/a> series \u201cPretend It\u2019s A City,\u201d which is an acerbic love letter to New York City. <\/p>\n

Trump changed his residency to Florida<\/a> in 2019 and rarely returns to his former hometown. When he does, Trump is often greeted by protesters, and his Trump Tower is a popular site for demonstrations, whether he\u2019s there or not. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a hated building,\u201d Lebowitz said, calling it a \u201cpiece of junk he built on Fifth Avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DemonstratorsDemonstrators rally against President Donald Trump outside New York’s Trump Tower on Presidents’ Day. <\/p>\n

Selcuk Acar\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Later in the interview, Lebowitz added that she will never forgive the president. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s unforgivable, all right? No one should ever forgive him,\u201d she said, then referenced his ongoing feud<\/a> with Pope Leo XIV<\/a>. \u201cNot that I speak for the pope, but it doesn\u2019t sound to me like the pope\u2019s going to be forgiving him either. And the pope\u2019s job is forgiving. That\u2019s his whole profession.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lebowitz has never minced words when it comes to Trump. <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone says he is crazy \u2013 which maybe he is \u2013 but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid,\u201d she told The Guardian<\/a> in 2018. \u201cYou do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

See her full interview with \u201cGood Weekend Talks\u201d below: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author and New York cultural icon Fran Lebowitz wants people to stop associating President Donald Trump with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,17222,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-216284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-donald-trump","tag-fran-lebowitz","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}