[hga]

Look at all the stories of his good will and/or charity towards "little guys". There's zillions from before the campaign, and plenty of the good will in it.

My favorite is of some guy with essentially no money in his pocket, with just a package of hot dogs on a Martha's Vineyard beach. This random guy offered to cook them next to the steaks he was grilling, and accidentally ruined them, thereby feeding the poor guy a stake. I think sometime later the guy realized it was Trump.

There's also the thesis that at some point Trump took the measure of our establishment, including the GOPe, and decided to do something about it.

There's also a historical pattern of the top and bottom against the middle, and now there's a new lower if not bottom group, ditto a new middle, the professional class, and a great deal of (now?) mutual loathing between them and the working class. So in that respect this is nothing new, this goes back millennia.

[prawn]

He has a history of refusing to pay people who've done work for him. I haven't heard a single story of good will or charity.

All his charitable claims were investigated and the solitary solid lead turned out to be a possible accounting error:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/795749306242310144

[keeringplastik]

"Nice guy trump" isnt really the campaign he ran, or what got him elected.

Class conflict is a constant in politics, but still doesn't explain "prince trump for the little guys"

[meffie]

Living in Ohio, the conversations I have with his supporters here always started with the phrase "he is a businessman", a comment that always baffled me. But that is the perception.

Something to consider; large gold letters on his buildings, golden toilets, gaudy furniture, jets, and trophy wives. These are all cliche elements of the "new rich", the common guy that made to the big time. Unfortunately, this is appealing to a large segment of the population.