President Donald Trump, a homebody who would often return to Manhattan between campaign stops to sleep in his own bed in Trump Tower, has returned to the city only a handful of times. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images White House Trump: 'I miss New York'

President Donald Trump, a born-and-raised New Yorker, misses his hometown and plans to return there after his presidency, he said this week.

Trump said in an interview with the New York Post that he’s largely avoided the city during his time in the White House because of the disruption a presidential visit can cause, citing his annoyance when President Barack Obama would come to town.


“They close down the city. I feel guilty because I remember when Obama would come in I’d say what the hell is he coming. He’d come in. The traffic. With me it’s even worse. They close down an even bigger section. So that’s the reason I do that.”

“I love New York, I miss New York,” Trump said, though New York seems not to love him — the city voted overwhelmingly against Trump in 2016, and protests there against the president and his policies are now part of the norm.

Trump, a homebody who would often return to Manhattan between campaign stops to sleep in his own bed in Trump Tower, has returned to the city only a handful of times, mostly for United Nations general assemblies, opting instead to spend more time at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.

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“A lot of times I stay in New Jersey at the club because it’s 2,000 acres. And they have plenty of room. I stay there not because of any reason other then I feel so guilty when I go into New York,” he said.