Trump Doral: "Next week is the equivalent of a date night with someone you’ve already served divorce papers on."

Susanne Crane and David Chen of the New York Times tried to brand Donald Trump a non-player in the city that openly declares itself the greatest in the world.

Poor Donald!

It's a strange "Special Report" attempting to belittle the Republican frontrunner and Nevada caucus winner. But the piece seems to backfire by reminding us that New Yorkers have a woefully inflated sense of civic importance that doesn't register past the George Washington Bridge.

The only thing missing was a paragraph about how The Donald wasn't able to secure decent Hamilton tickets. (Lucky man!)

More enjoyable is Eamon Lynch's suggestion in Newsweek that Trump has moved on from golf as only a frontrunner for the world's most powerful job can do.

While campaigning in South Carolina last week, Trump addressed a rally in Kiawah Island, the famed golf community. Speaking with his usual combination of incoherence and immodesty, he told the crowd that the developers of Kiawah had also built Doonbeg, the resort on Ireland’s west coast that Trump purchased two years ago.

“I bought it a number of years ago, and during the downturn in Ireland I made a good investment. It is an incredible place,” Trump said. “We spent a lot of money on making it just perfect, and now it’s doing great.” (Recently filed accounts showed a loss of $2.7 million in the first year of his ownership.)

It’s what Trump said next that matters.

“But I don’t care about that stuff anymore. It is like small potatoes, right? I’ll let my kids run it, have fun with it, let my executives have a good time, but I don’t care about it. I care about making America great again. That’s what I care about.”

Small potatoes. That’s us, he’s talking about. Golf.

While executives in the sport fretted about how best to break up with Trump, he’s pulled a George Costanza and broken up with them.

Lynch goes on to prepare us for next week's fun, where the PGA Tour visits Trump Doral under strained terms.