The president’s Oval Office meeting with New York’s incoming leader is not open to the press.
Trump, 79, frequently invites reporters into the Oval Office for a front-seat view as he sits down with U.S. and world leaders, but, according to his schedule, the media was barred from his first meeting with Mamdani, the Democratic socialist 45 years his junior.
Their first face-to-face comes after Trump lobbed a series of nasty attacks on the political upstart who mounted an underdog campaign and went on to win the race to lead the largest city in the U.S.
Trump has blasted Mamdani as a “communist lunatic” and “not very smart.” He falsely accused him of being in the country illegally, threatened to arrest him, and warned that he would cut off money to New York if he won.
Any Democrat or progressive worth a damn shouldn’t meet with him on camera. He’d rather have sound bytes than actual productive conversation.
I am very cynical. I don’t think there will be productive conversation happening in private either. I’d be more inclined to think threats and intimidation will be the brunt of it. The orange turd thinks he’s a mobster, but does have the backing of Russia and Israel.
He is a mobster. He owned a casino and was in real estate in New York. You don’t get any more mob than that.
I think you do, but fine, I accept the correction. In my mind I have capable and real (even movie) mobsters and with him, he thinks he’s that, but he’s a dollar store idiot mobster. Deffo not the brains of anything. I suppose that’s my reasoning. What was the saying?
“…he is a weak man’s idea of a strong man, a poor man’s idea of a rich man, and a stupid man’s idea of a smart man.”
I’ve known a couple of mob people. They’re just people with low moral ethics. They extort, blackmail and bribe for their own benefit. They usually have the smart people work for them. Trump is smart about putting a fake gold leaf over everything where people don’t look too closely at how he’s an actual mob guy. He did business with the russian mob ffs.