Kurt Andersen , who jousted with the Donald as an editor at Spy , celebrates the '' Daffy Duck '' of deal-making in New York magazine this week as one of the '' Reasons to Love New York , '' calling him '' our 21st century reincarnation of P. T. Barnum and Diamond Jim Brady , John Gotti minus the criminal organization , the only white New Yorker who lives as large as the blingiest , dissiest rapper -- de trop personified . ''