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I'm not from NY, but I too was paying attention back in the day and can confirm, the Orange Turd has always been a deranged, self-absorbed, shit stain of a human being.
I don't know how big an impact celebrity is, but if you watch almost any media from the 80s or 90s you'll eventually come across a DT reference, either the man himself or something about him, and it's usually fawning. Like I said, I don't know how much a thing like that is representative of how people actually thought/think about him, but it feels like it helped.
Yeah outside of NYC the media slobbed his knob constantly. The motherfucker makes a cameo in Home Alone 2 like it’s some incredible once-in-a-lifetime experience to run into him. But if you search for articles, there’s negative stuff about him - just most people write that off as like “activist journalism” or whatever
It’s America, everyone worships the rich people
Of course, when I'm rich everyone should worship me ti because I do all the rich people stuff.
Soon enough I'll work my way up to CEO and catch my big break. Then all those people in high-school that I never interacted with will be like oh no I shouldn't have not cared or something.
The media did indeed hype him up for many years, but at least some of us saw past that and realized that he wasn't all he was cracked up to be.