this is arguably why he is the way he is: NYC high society mocked him to his face.

a lot of his "burn it down, fuck em" attitude stems from that.

he is, however, completely and utterly narcissistic and greedy, and smart rich people are able to play him like a fiddle.

the KGB picked up on that in, like, the 80's, after Ivana's dad -- an informant for the Czechoslovakian secret police -- passed on details of their relationship to the Czech internal security