The reader top NY Times comment about the meeting is very much on point.
Mamdani demonstrated what pusillanimous Congressional Democrats (read: Schumer/Jeffries) still don’t grasp about dealing with a profoundly insecure, grandiose, thin-skinned narcissist who unravels the moment he isn’t being worshipped. Instead of pontificating from afar like the rest of the Dem sheeple, ZM hopped on a plane, waltzed straight into the lion’s den, and managed Trump’s brittle ego with the finesse of someone who understands tactics, strategy, and the art of negotiating with an unstable degenerate.
Trump isn’t just self-absorbed, he’s so catastrophically fragile and pathologically needy that he requires constant stroking or he collapses into sulking and malicious retribution. That’s when he’s dangerous. Getting Trump to lift a finger for New York City has nothing to do with data, reports, or moral reasoning, it’s about handing him an emotional pacifier to keep him from descending into yet another tantrum.
Mamdani proved exactly why he was the most qualified candidate for mayor. He not only comprehends policy, he gets psychology as well. Instead of wasting breath whining about the inevitable, he simply outplayed Trump.
Seeing Trump’s smug face and genial response to being blatantly flattered would normally nauseate me, but this time it wasn’t a ruthless Saudi dictator or an avaricious CEO, it was a man seeking to do something good for humanity!
Call it brilliance, strategic empathy, or political jujitsu. Whatever the label, it worked!
Bravo, Mr. Mamdani!
The problem, of course, is that Dump has no ethos or moral compass. If someone tells him today that Mandami is a "bad hombre" then Dump will revert to his earlier stance of Mandami being subject to deportation and NYC being a cesspool.
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