( MENAFN - The Conversation) Donald J. trump was a president from, but not of, New York. In the final months of his presidency, Trump attacked New York as a lawless“ghost town” and got attacked right back.

More than two-thirds of New Yorkers citywide voted against their hometown candidate in the 2020 election. In Manhattan, where Trump lived before becoming president, every single voting district went for Joe Biden . When Trump was elected in 2016 , it was his first serious venture into electoral politics.

In the half-century before his election, the then 70-year-old Trump had been a Real estate developer, serial entrepreneur and reality television star. Back then, Trump's personal story and style were deeply intertwined with New York. After winning the election, he floated the idea of remaining at least part-time in his home in Trump Tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue rather than moving entirely into the White House.

Since leaving office, he has changed his legal residence to his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and been convicted of 34 felony charges by a jury of his New York peers. As a New Yorker whose mother and grandparents were also born here, I have long observed Donald Trump's strange relationship with our shared hometown . Trump may seem like a quintessential New Yorker, but he is in some respects a non-New Yorker's idea of a New Yorker.

He is brash, speaks his mind and is not given to unnecessary politesse, all stereotypes about this city. But Trump was always difficu.