It's taken a while for me to get up to speed on his enormous accomplishments, and the fact that he's prevailed in the slimy environs of Albany and City Hall are even more impressive.
If you left in 1980, you don’t even know who he is. Please. He was still building his company in those days. Look at the interviews.
For others who don’t hate NYC: in a sense, he has always reminded me of Ed Koch, who as a congressman in the 60s and was a quiet individual who went through life unnoticed. He became mayor and suddenly ba-boom! We had a major personality on our hands. Trump was so boring in the 70s that friends of mine who had dates with him dropped him due to the non-personality factor. I guess he was, like Koch, hiding his light under a bushel.