If you're familiar w/the ethnic & racial politics of New York City in the 1960s-70s-80s, this attitude is completely unsurprising. Trump is not from the lily-white world of Iowa or the two-race world of Alabama. He's from a city of many tribes. Tribes seek out chiefs.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1164211967051128833 …
The other developers were white, but to get anything done, you needed to work with other constituencies, from the Mob to immigrant labor.