[stanne]

They opened it with a huge dig on Trump

And you know it

[billorites]

You grossly misread what the author wrote. Please read it again and slowly.

I draw your attention to the relevant sentence, "where a man once considered nothing more than a tacky, loud, nouveau-riche liberal..."

Sefton is not denigrating Trump, but is accurately describing the contempt in which he was held, and still is, by his opponents.