During a Friday presser from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump offered some rare kind words to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after their meeting, saying, "I think he is gonna surprise some conservative people, actually."
“I think, hopefully, you’re gonna have a really great mayor, and the better he does, the happier I am, I will say. There’s no difference in party, there’s no difference in anything, and we’re gonna be helping him to make everybody’s dream come true — having a strong and very safe New York.”
Wow. Did someone give Trump a drug? Did Mamdani hypnotize him? This is bonkers.
trump would (figuratively) pay any price for that, it’s what he’s wanted his entire life. The wealthy NYers will never accept him, so he can piss them off and get some kind of authentic goodwill for his hometown?
trump could absolutely be talked into that short term.
Those "uhh"s are a competent person thinking through how each thing they say could be misinterpreted and changing the language on the fly. He knew anything he said that could even be taken slightly as offensive to the right would dominate the news cycle for the next week. Its just sad that trump and his supporters knows the same thing and simply doesn’t give a shit about who he offends.
Yeah, but like, it made him, like, sounds like a, teenage, like, schoolgirl. I would, like, take that, like, excuse if it was only, like, during important, like, speeches, and stuff. But he, like, did it during, like, the most mundane, like, things he would, like, say.
I mean, Fetterman had some questionable views even before the point that most acknowledged that he’d flipped, he simply got less coverage than Mamdani and had the benefit of running against Dr. Oz so a lot of it was missed/overlooked. I think it’s significantly less likely that Mamdani flips because, to my understanding, he’s been very consistent in his views for quite a while now, even from the time before he was in office.
That said, if Mamdani flipped I could see it doing significant damage to the left on the basis of perception alone, so it could be that I’m just praying the left won’t be… fettered, by another pretender giving progressive policy a wrongfully bad name.
He’s not even in office yet and us on the left are already trying to purity test his actions.
Jesus Christ, let’s judge Zohran & his team by their policy actions when they take office. Anything until then is just rampant speculation that’ll only serve the far-right and the foreign interest and big-money interest astroturfing bots trying to divide the left again!
He’s a 79 year old demented narcissist, and Mamdani is a smart son of immigrants from Brooklyn…
I said it the other day that Mamdani was gonna finesse trump into a reverse mortgage and buying two of the same mixtape.
It doesn’t fucking take much, you just need to manage more charisma than Chuck Schumer. trump isn’t hard to manipulate, it’s just neoliberals never want to actually win. They want the public attention for throwing shit with trump, Mamdani wants to get shit done.
The fact that Mamdani knows how to talk to Trump is a sign of his intelligence and his way with words. We’ve also seen some foreign leaders who know exactly how to talk to Trump to get what they want.
“I think, hopefully, you’re gonna have a really great mayor, and the better he does, the happier I am, I will say. There’s no difference in party, there’s no difference in anything, and we’re gonna be helping him to make everybody’s dream come true — having a strong and very safe New York.”
Wow. Did someone give Trump a drug? Did Mamdani hypnotize him? This is bonkers.
This is where Zohran pulls off his mask and reveals the shambling corpse of DICK CHENEY.
Trump probably doesn’t want his NY real estate to lose value, so now he will say and do anything to keep the market up.
Trump was expecting a poorly spoken non-white to match his biases, instead got Mamdani who is extremely well spoken.
Obama was too and that didn’t stop him. Trump expects Mamdani to become a MAGA pickme.
Not really.
It doesn’t have to be deeper than Mamdani saying:
trump would (figuratively) pay any price for that, it’s what he’s wanted his entire life. The wealthy NYers will never accept him, so he can piss them off and get some kind of authentic goodwill for his hometown?
trump could absolutely be talked into that short term.
Obama wasn’t…uhhh…that great…of a…uggggghhh…speaker.
Those "uhh"s are a competent person thinking through how each thing they say could be misinterpreted and changing the language on the fly. He knew anything he said that could even be taken slightly as offensive to the right would dominate the news cycle for the next week. Its just sad that trump and his supporters knows the same thing and simply doesn’t give a shit about who he offends.
Yeah, but like, it made him, like, sounds like a, teenage, like, schoolgirl. I would, like, take that, like, excuse if it was only, like, during important, like, speeches, and stuff. But he, like, did it during, like, the most mundane, like, things he would, like, say.
Interesting that you had to change to a completely different type of dialogue in order to make it sound bad.
He got criticized for wearing a tan suit. There were no times that were mundane for him.
Except…he never said “like” like valley girl speak ever.
The opposite is trump, so I hope you’re enjoying when the current president speaks instead of Obama.
Fuck. I hope he doesn’t do a Fetterman. Afettered, if you’ll indulge me.
I mean, Fetterman had some questionable views even before the point that most acknowledged that he’d flipped, he simply got less coverage than Mamdani and had the benefit of running against Dr. Oz so a lot of it was missed/overlooked. I think it’s significantly less likely that Mamdani flips because, to my understanding, he’s been very consistent in his views for quite a while now, even from the time before he was in office.
That said, if Mamdani flipped I could see it doing significant damage to the left on the basis of perception alone, so it could be that I’m just praying the left won’t be… fettered, by another pretender giving progressive policy a wrongfully bad name.
He’s not even in office yet and us on the left are already trying to purity test his actions.
Jesus Christ, let’s judge Zohran & his team by their policy actions when they take office. Anything until then is just rampant speculation that’ll only serve the far-right and the foreign interest and big-money interest astroturfing bots trying to divide the left again!
He’s a 79 year old demented narcissist, and Mamdani is a smart son of immigrants from Brooklyn…
I said it the other day that Mamdani was gonna finesse trump into a reverse mortgage and buying two of the same mixtape.
It doesn’t fucking take much, you just need to manage more charisma than Chuck Schumer. trump isn’t hard to manipulate, it’s just neoliberals never want to actually win. They want the public attention for throwing shit with trump, Mamdani wants to get shit done.
The fact that Mamdani knows how to talk to Trump is a sign of his intelligence and his way with words. We’ve also seen some foreign leaders who know exactly how to talk to Trump to get what they want.
You did, I remember that!