For the nth time, Bx, NY, NY, born and raised. Heck, I walked past his house in Jamaica Estates and didn't know it till a few years ago because it was no big deal to the family we visited there nor to us nor anyone else because, well, look at pics of that neighborhood and you'd understand why. A penny a dozen, there.
Your idol is from OUR town. We've been exposed to his cringe since the 70s, always in news stories about.... nothing. Turns out it was because he bought the exposure. He was famous simply for being famous decades before Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian were even BORN - when their parents were kids, even.
For us, he was a joke. The heck you think he never ran for any office here and lost by 89% in 2016 for?
I get it, and I don't want to sound like some entitled elitest from 'tha big city,' but it's like Old Man Bufford's big giant ball of yarn over there in Gulver's Gultch. Sure, people stop by to have a look and take pics when they're en route to some place else because of the gazillion billboards announcing it sparked their interest and everyone had to get out of the SUV to take a pee anyways, but to his neighbors, it's no big deal (not that it it to the curiosity seekers either).
Same deal, only we got slightly bigger things than a ball of yarn and a lot more of it too, and more rich and celebrities than you could meet in your entire life if you met a dozen a day. Being jaded comes with the territory.
AKA, he's only one out of 8,300,000 that live here, and is just one in the largest concentration of millionaires on planet frikkin earth, so let's skip the golly gee whizz country mouse thang, shall we, he's not god.
I've told you this already how many times?