I will grant the folks at the Trump White House that they do not understand much about how life works. That's how it is when you inherit money or position. Everyone knows that Trump wanted to grow beyond being an immigrant third generation from Queens. The people in Trump's home growing up understood the 400--those families in NYC who were the social hierarchy highest. They are still who they are--some are wealthy, some are educated, everyone in NYC knows the names.
But the world moves on. When my husband graduated from Harvard College (case in point, when one is an undergraduate at Harvard, one attends Harvard College not Harvard University), people who wanted to go to Wall Street were the third tier of graduates, not smart enough to become anything else. But the world moves on and now financial jobs are the coveted positions. Is anyone better off because of this shift?
Richard Nixon learned that simply being the guy in charge doesn't mean that the guy in charge is respected. NYC does reflect the Donald Trump world now, but that doesn't make NYC better or more interesting. It definitely doesn't mean that Donald Trump has "taken Manhattan". He is not the top and will never be the top. As a side note, that song includes a reference to the factory where my grandfather apprenticed and where he worked until 1929--"You're the top, you're a Brewster body."
BTW--my mother, the seventh of eight children, was the spelling champion of the borough of Queens. I never disrespect Queens
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