From CNN:
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was pressed Friday on whether he believes President Donald Trump is a fascist.
Standing beside his host in the Oval Office, Mamdani began to answer – until the president, seated, interrupted.
“That’s OK – you can just say yes. That’s easier. It’s easier than explaining,” Trump told his guest, laughing it off as he playfully tapped Mamdani on the arm.
TFW the fascist agrees he is a fascist
But the two were all smiles throughout, with Trump even siding with the soon-to-be first Muslim mayor of New York over one of his GOP allies, Rep. Elise Stefanik, who’d called Mamdani a “jihadist.”
“She’s out there campaigning and you say things sometimes in a campaign,” Trump said of Stefanik, who’s running for governor of New York. “I met with a man who’s a very rational person. I met with a man who wants to see New York be great again.”
Well that’s not what I expected…
This is the first I’m hearing of this. And, I seriously can’t tell whether you’re joking.
Not for the first time, recently, I ask, “WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!”
The ruling class wear ideology like a suit. It’s political theatre. Power only ever serves itself, right/left have no meaning at the top.
I was not expecting Mamdani to meet with Trump, but looking back it makes sense. Butter him up, and he’ll support anyone. If Elon Musk and JD Vance could get Trump’s support by glazing him, anyone can.
Trump has flip-flopped on positions repeatedly. Gun control, LGBTQ+ rights. It’s all ego for him. Always has been. I guess all you need to do is sweet talk him the right way.
Trump gushing over a dem-soc was not on my bingo card
he’s trying (failing) to poison pill him. “Look at us, we’re good friends! if you don’t trust me, don’t trust him.”
I doubt he’s that smart, he’s senile, his opinion is based on whoever was nice to him last. He literally said he never heard of his policies from TV (insane admission of incompetence which we already knew about).
someone on lemmy said that’s why we have a gereontocracy, they are so easy to manipulate with lobbyists and owning the tv channels they watch.
Whatever trump said today will be the opposite tomorrow or the next. Smiles today, threaten to hang Mamdani by next Wednesday.
I’ve just remembered that enough people voted both AOC for House and Trump for president that she did a livestream about it asking them why.
Some people really believed that Trump would lower prices. Mamdani and AOC, being dem-soc, focus on people’s basic necessities. As wild as it sounds, there’s actually a link between Trump and the dem-socs. Trump has made some left-wing promises on the economy, which, of course, he has failed to keep, and associating himself with Mamdani might improve his approval on the economy if Mamdani succeeds. Maybe Trump will try to take credit for what Mamdani may succeed to do in NYC
Some people really believed that Trump would lower prices.
anyone who actually believed that after the first four years is a fucking idiot that needs to have their head examined.
was four years of chaos, lies, and millions of deaths not enough for them? maybe the two impeachments? no no, had to be the god damned insurrection on Jan 6!
being a fucking moron is no excuse for voting for that son of a bitch, and I’ll never forgive anyone who voted for him more than once.
There’s really a lot of idiots out there.
Keep in mind that the critical affordability issue as it landed in the news as we recovered from COVID and also supply chain impacts from Ukraine war. During his first term, inflation was pretty much the same as it had been since 1990. Then during Biden’s term, there was 7% then a further 6.5% on top of that and then another 3.4% on top of that and then 2.9% on top of that. So there’s a correlation that things are now even more rapidly unaffordable and in such cases the president inevitably gets the blame whether it makes sense or not.
His first term was pretty incompetent and corrupt, but got nowhere near as maliciously and successfully corrupt as this go around. On the matter of deaths, while the USA by the data was among the worst, almost in the 10 worst nations for per-capita death, the subjective coverage was “globally lots of people are dying”, it’s not Trump’s fault specifically in that perception of “no one has it good”.
Generally speaking, in these circumstances people are just voting against the state of the way things are with less high minded ideals. Trump lost because people hated things under COVID. Harris lost because the economic reaction to recovery was all messed up and so a change was demanded.
I share the shock that people actually went for it, but I’m not surprised that this seemingly nonsensical situation could happen.
Trump’s just a cowardly keyboard warrior, full of bluster when he doesn’t have to face his target, with a total lack of impulse control. So he says wild shit that any normal person would understand is completely inappropriate.
But when he is face-to-face, he goes full coward, and smiles, and laughs, and jokes, all of which he does weirdly uncomfortably, because he’s an astonishingly broken psychopath, and doesn’t have the slightest clue about how to behave like a normal person.
Tomorrow he’ll be back to “normal,” (for him) and Mamdani will go back to being a Commie.
He was like that back with The Apprentice. The scenes with him telling the contestant off had them in different rooms.
What the hell is HAPPENING
Broken clock is right twice a day
The broken clock just got slathered up with a giant pad of butter. Mamdami probably agreed to rename a major boulevard in Manhattan after him.
Hell yeah, an Alice in wonderland reference? Very rare👌🏽
MAGA for sure will have a whiplash today but Trump’s change of mind is consistent with my theory that he only cares about two things:
- making money
- getting the Nobel Peace Prize
Everything else is just a distraction. Trump doesn’t give a shit who’s the mayor of NYC. He will post couple of truths about it but now the important thing is to get back to making billions on crypto and getting shitloads of bribes.
Aspiring to win a Nobel Peace Prize sounds pretty admirable, at least on paper…
trump only cares about one thing. Feeding his ego. He’s a narcissist. It’s all that drives him. The money, the Nobel & other prizes, the ballroom, the plane, the bribes, etc. it’s all about his image.
If Mamdani boosted trump’s own personal image of himself then trump will like Mamdani. For the moment.
I personally like Vaushs theory that he really likes people with spine, even if they’re politically opposed to him
As long as theyre not a woman. He hates women. Especially women who oppose him.
My only fear is that we get another Fetterman incident
If Mamdani had walked back any of his criticisms of Trump I’d agree, but he didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I feel you. We’ve been burned. But I don’t think this is Mamdani burning us.
trump:
That looks like ASAC Schrader and Heisenberg…
ಠ_ಠ
They attacked Trump when he used to be pro-vax.
I still can’t believe he was publicly pro-vaccines. “Take them”, he said, and the public booed. I was shocked.
He was being pragmatic honestly. A major part of his constituents are older folks who are more vulnerable. Probably didn’t want any potential voters dying off
Wtf did I miss
The Mad King liked Mamdani’s rizz in the moment.
Meanwhile the Democrats have almost 90 dems sign some dumb thing condemning Socialism.
Trump gave a blowjob to Mamdani.
…and we live in such a bizzare timeline that you innitially don’t know if I’m joking.
I’m not against bros blowing bros,
But if that were to happen I’m pretty sure it would not be consensual on Mamdani’s part
Cuomo? 100% wouldn’t have given a 2nd thought and assumed it’s true
Did the Saudis order Trump to stop picking on the Muslim guy?
He might also be doing a runaround on NY gov Hochul re: securing state funding for his NYC program agenda. It puts lots of pressure on her to play nice with him.
Ding ding ding!
ngl, Trump falling for the new demsoc mayor of NYC’s rizz was not on my 2025 bingo
He’s reading the room and wants to position himself in front of the trend. MTG saw it. MAGA is beginning to see it.
42 year old here.
…is it weird that I know what rizz is, but I’m only assuming I know what demsoc is based on context?
Democratic socialist?
Probably a play on Orwell’s 1984 “IngSoc” party but with “Dem” instead
“Demsoc” is just a shorthand for “democratic socialist”. Similar to how “ancap” is “anarcho-capitalist” and “nazbol” is “national-bolshevik”.
38 year old here:
I’m gonna give it to the zoomers for coming up with some solid slang with Rizz.
Zoomers did not come up with the term rizz.
That’s the Alphas
“rizz em with the tism” is my go to bio line
44 , no idea. Is it a hairdo?
Charisma (cha"rizz"ma)…
I don’t agree with it, I just know what it is.
Thanks! And , man that is rib lan.
Ter"rib"le s"lan"g.
Yes
