Well, I'm glad that the meeting between two famous New Yorkers went off splendidly.
This past Friday, the 47th President of these United States met with the Mayor-elect of New York City for a meeting that, quite honestly, would only benefit the future Mayor.
The President of these United States has so much going on, not only in this country but all over the world, that his blowing off the mayor-elect would have been natural and even excusable, but Trump made time to meet with him, size up the man, and get a read of him.
If I were in Trump's shoes, I probably would have done the same thing.
Yet when the Sunday news programs came along and Mamdani went on NBC's Meet the Press and threw Trump under the bus, I guess that is to be expected, but my nose would definitely be out of whack a bit.
If we know one thing about Donald Trump, though, it's this: If his nose gets out of whack, someone's going to pay.
A portion of what Mamdani said below on Meet the Press is provided, and everyone reading this can decide whether or not, and or how Trump may respond.
Part of the interview is right HERE:In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," host Kristen Welker asked Mamdani if he still believes the president is a fascist and a threat to democracy.
The incoming mayor and democratic socialist said he sticks by his comments, which include alleging as recently as his Nov. 4 victory speech that the president has engaged in attacks on American democracy and represents a "fascist" and "despot."
Well, good for him. We know that socialists have to be socialists, and he is sticking to that road.
The "Meet the Press" appearance was Mamdani's first national interview since the White House meeting, which captured public attention for the pair's chummy, positive attitudes after months of trading blows. Trump has blasted the incoming mayor in several social media posts, calling him a communist and "nut job" in the lead-up to his overwhelming Election Day victory.
As of this writing, Donald Trump at the White House has yet to comment on the Meet the Press interview.
Now I'm fully aware that Trump does not generally talk with verbal kid gloves. He has no issue going after whoever is standing in front of him, whether they are a Republican or a Democrat or, in this case, a flat-out Socialist.
Just this past week, Trump has had no problem being critical of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Chuck Schumer, and now the new political flavor in his home state, socialist Mamdani.
That Mamdani has correctly read the budget of the city of New York and knows that the state of New York is not going to be able to fund everything that he wants to do, he is naturally going to turn to Donald Trump and the federal government. Maybe he thinks that kissing Donald Trump's rear is going to help him get the money he needs to fund his schemes.
This is exactly where the President of the United States needs to make sure that he is representing the vast majority of the people who voted for him and not just somebody who is reminding him of his former hometown.
The Mayor-elect is the new breed of (socialist) politician who is young and influential and trying to gain as much ground as possible.
Socialism is something that this country has flirted with, and its lessons never seem to be learned or, more importantly, remembered. Mamdani is going to implement it or try to implement it as much as possible in America's largest city. He won't be able to do that easily, and I doubt he'll be able to do it without the cooperation and money from the federal government, which is sitting in Washington, D.C..
Why won't it work?
Quite simply, socialism has failed and every place that has been meaningfully tried.
I recall many moons ago, I had a friend who did missionary work in Cuba and Jamaica after hurricanes or other calamities had struck those countries. What she described to me after both of those countries was shocking. The bottom had fallen out for people who were already at the bottom in both countries in those instances. Both locals embraced socialism much more closely to catered socialism than the United States currently does in most of the country, and in the larger cities.
Poverty sucks all around, but in a country with capitalism, you have a chance at breaking through that and choosing to spread what you have earned. In socialism, everyone will be equally poor and miserable except for the elected and their chosen few.
Mamdani will soon move into the Mayor's abode and will be catered to while demanding money for all sorts of his pet government projects that he will demand federal taxpayer money for.
Hopefully, Trump will not be swayed and let Zohran Mamdani sink under the weight of a failed economic system that has never worked anywhere it has been truly tried.
Hopefully.
