A well-known fixture on the Manhattan social circuit said she used to think he was likable, but now sees him as a fascist and a blowhard. “I won’t say another word about Donald Trump; I’m too disgusted.” Russell Simmons, who founded Def Jam Recordings and was a close friend of Trump, wrote him a letter telling him to stop the bullsh*t. And the New York City Council speaker held a huge anti-Trump rally recently, specifically to protest the reality star’s view that Muslims should be banned from entering the country.

The mogul from Jamaica, Queens, has never truly been embraced by the city’s elite. But Trump’s latest suggestion to ban all Muslims from entering the United States “until we figure out what the hell is going on,” seems to have been the breaking point for leaders in New York, which is home to more than 3 million immigrants. And the response to Trump’s increasingly ugly presidential bid has evolved from polite silence to “stop the bullsh*t.”

Simmons called Trump an “amazing friend” of more than 30 years, but said he couldn’t disagree with people who were comparing him to Adolf Hitler. “Stop fueling fires of hate,” Simmons wrote.

On the same day Simmons went public with his letter, members of the New York City Council held a rally on the steps of City Hall with a similar message.

“There is nothing left to say about Donald Trump except he is a disgusting, racist demagogue who has no business running for president period,” said Melissa Mark-Viverito, the first Latina to be speaker of the New York City Council. She called his temporary Muslim ban “xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic.”

Robert Zimmerman, a longtime Democratic fundraiser in New York, said Trump had always been considered a “hustler and a self-promoter” by power players in New York. But now he may have made himself something worse in Trumpland: Irrelevant.

“Trump has always tried very hard to be close to anybody in power. He gives to both sides, he tries to look important to both sides,” Zimmerman said. “But just because people take your checks doesn’t mean they take you seriously. Now he has reduced himself to a point he may not even be able to buy his way back in.”

In fairness, much of the toughest criticism of Trump last week came from Democrats. So what are his fellow Republicans saying?

Carl Paladino, the GOP nominee for governor in 2010, is so pro-Trump he’s floated himself to be Trump’s vice president. But Joe Lhota, the Republican nominee for New York mayor in 2013, called for Republicans to kick Trump out of the party. “He doesn’t have a First Amendment right to be a Republican,” Lhota told Errol Lewis on New York 1 on Dec. 8. “Republicans ought to take a stand.”