Author and New York cultural icon Fran Lebowitz wants people to stop associating President Donald Trump with the city she loves.

“The thing that makes New Yorkers the angriest about Trump is that other people think he’s a New Yorker,” she told Australia’s “Good Weekend Talks” podcast last week. “New Yorkers do not think that. New Yorkers don’t think that. We never thought that.”

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.

“He never even comes here because he’s so hated,” said Lebowitz, who is the subject of the Netflix series “Pretend It’s A City,” which is an acerbic love letter to New York City.

Trump changed his residency to Florida 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’s there or not.

“It’s a hated building,” Lebowitz said, calling it a “piece of junk he built on Fifth Avenue.”

Demonstrators rally against President Donald Trump outside New York's Trump Tower on Presidents' Day.

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Later in the interview, Lebowitz added that she will never forgive the president.

“He’s unforgivable, all right? No one should ever forgive him,” she said, then referenced his ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV. “Not that I speak for the pope, but it doesn’t sound to me like the pope’s going to be forgiving him either. And the pope’s job is forgiving. That’s his whole profession.”

Lebowitz has never minced words when it comes to Trump.

“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid,” she told The Guardian in 2018. “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

See her full interview with “Good Weekend Talks” below:

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