Bill Clinton has been out of the White House for nearly 17 years, and despite what many people expected in 2016, won’t likely live there again. But the Arkansas native hasn’t lost the gifts that got him there in the first place—namely, taking command of a room the moment he walks in the door. Per Page Six, when Clinton arrived at Cantor Fitzgerald’s annual Charity Day in New York City, the whole room turned its attention to him.

A source at the event said “the room stopped . . . and then everyone freaked out” when they saw the former president enter.

And he wasn’t exactly in anonymous company; Robert De Niro, Jake Gyllenhaal, Gayle King, and Shaquille O’Neal were also attending the annual fund-raiser, which began raising money after September 11, 2001, when the company lost more than 650 employees in the terrorist attacks. Since then, the company has expanded its fund-raising efforts to help not only victims of terror, but those of natural disasters and emergencies.

As the Huffington Post noted in 2013, Clinton long ago mastered the power of eye contact and his ability to keep his attention on his subjects as he speaks to them. As Fast Company wrote in 2012, it’s also how Clinton says something that matters as much as what he says. He knows where to put the emphasis on certain words, where to insert pauses—keeping the audience in his orbit.

Even his long-winded speech in support of Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention had The Washington Post marveling at his ability to “[employ] the full measure of his rhetorical skills and leave a room completely at his attention.”

With Hillary Clinton currently on a tour for her new book, What Happened, and drawing plenty of attention herself, it’s a good time to be a Clinton in New York City . . . and probably even better if you assume that, somewhere, Donald Trump is fuming about them getting all this attention in his hometown.