New York elites never accepted Trump despite his wealth and property development

Evidence

This was far from Trump’s first skirmish in his long struggle for elite esteem. For decades, New Yorkers had dismissed him as a gaudy arriviste from Queens with over-the-top real estate projects, failed casinos, and a tabloid-optimized love life. No matter how much money he made or how many Manhattan properties he developed, he never earned the respect of high society. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 419

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 419
• XREF: connects to: Trump reached the presidency without party allegiance or elite endorsement — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 179