Success Quote by Donald Trump Jr.

There is a whole identity play packed into the word "last". Trump Jr. isn’t just describing a commute; he’s casting himself as a rare holdout in a city that, in the popular imagination, has been claimed by subways, ride-shares, bike lanes, congestion pricing debates, and a general disdain for private cars in Manhattan. The line performs scarcity as virtue: if he’s among the last who drives daily, then he’s implicitly tougher, more self-reliant, less coddled by urban systems, and less aligned with the cultural class that signals status by not needing a car.

The subtext is tribal. Driving in New York is less a practical choice than a provocation, a way to say: I’m not part of the pedestrian, transit-riding, policy-forward New York you’re picturing. It’s a subtle culture-war flex that reads as anti-elite while also being, unmistakably, a luxury posture. Most New Yorkers don’t drive daily not because they’re precious, but because it’s expensive, slow, and punishing. Claiming it as a daily habit hints at access (parking, flexible schedule, routes, maybe a driver in the background even if the sentence insists otherwise).

Context matters: "New Yorker" here is a credential being defended. For a public figure often associated with wealth, towers, and an outer-borough-optional lifestyle, daily driving becomes a proof-of-contact with the city as friction, not postcard. It’s an attempt to own authenticity by choosing the least efficient way to move through power.