It seems he spends little time interacting with them himself unless it's for a photo op.   He sends his lawyers to interact with them when they get fed up and sue for payment. Many don't, because they can't afford endless litigation against his legal army.   He is not the friend of the working man, especially not of those who have had the misfortune of working on many of his projects. He claims "sub-par" work so that he can get away with cheating his contractors and subcontractors. He hasn't paid his bills for his hotel in DC - the same one he is using to make a personal profit with (along with his golf clubs) when he chooses to entertain "officially" at his own properties instead of in the White House. The taxpayers pick up the tab - but the White House dinners don't make him a profit, so he prefers to do his lavish 'official" entertaining at his own properties. Just one more conflict of interest. And he called Hillary a crook.