meanwhile, in the real world, he just lost another lawsuit that bars him from conducting bidiss in NY for 3 years, and also a 350$ million fine. He's not going to be on the ballot, and he's going to steal every cent from the RNC and his personal grifting of his gullible voters, whom he himself hates. hear from the thing himself: "Maybe this Covid thing is a good thing. ... [Now] I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people" — Donald Trump

“[I don’t like shaking hands with people,” Ms. Troye quoted Mr. Trump as saying. “I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people.”

In fairness, Mr. Trump is a noted germaphobe whose distaste for handshaking long predates the coronavirus. But Ms. Troye emphasized that “disgusting people” referred to the well-wishers themselves, not the act of shaking hands. “Oh, he talked all the time about the people themselves being disgusting,” Ms. Troye told me in an interview on Friday. “It was clear immediately that he wanted nothing to do with them.”](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/sunday-review/trump-supporters.html)