Trump always comes out of meetings agreeing with the last person he talked to. He has no mind if his own any more, if he ever had one to begin with.
Why don't all of the left leaning politicians then make it a point to just continually schedule 1 on 1 meetings with him?
The stench probably.
A lot of people really, really don't know how to read others and how to manage a character like Trump.
For Mamdani it was a fucking dog-walk, because he knows people, he's emotionally intelligent, he's very, very crafty too. Don't let the sometimes goofy charm fool you, he's extremely focused and sharp and careful about everything he says. He just has it down so it looks natural.
Not saying he's not a genuine person, but he also knows the game like he was born to it.
For the rest of the Dems? I mean... there are a few people who have a lot of spirit and fire, but that's not how to make Trump bend the knee, you have to really understand his buttons and you can't meet his obstinance and stupidity with force.
I think a few who were good at working trump in his first administration did do this too - but as you say, there's fewer than you'd think; and I think when his handlers figured out this was happening, they started scheduling Republicans to meet him right after to "correct" his mindset.
I'm fairly convinced that part of why this term is so batshit is because there are fewer "corrector" handlers left keeping him in check, it's just Stephen Miller's "mouth" direct to Trump's ears. There have been a lot of insider leaks confirming that Miller is just wormtonguing the senile old man day and night.
Trump's handlers are usually a little better at keeping the lid on him
Trump was a Democrat back when he was handing out BJ's. Probably got his anger from a scorned lover situation.
Anyway, I think Republicans all have a carry card that says "Trump meeting rules: 1: kiss his ass. 2: tell him to never meet alone with cheating Democrats"
Over the years he forgot that cheating was about his male lover and thinks it's about elections.
Simple, Mamdani probably just knows how to handle a narcissist. All you gotta do is stroke their ego, and it's not too difficult to get them on your side; the hardest part making them think that your ideas were their own, but even that's not too difficult because in typical narcissistic fashion, they'll just steal your ideas and then claim them as their own.
He really need to be in prison asap.
Indeed, an orange suit with a glass of orange Kool-Aid or Tang.
He looks like JJ Abrams tried to create a new villain for Star Wars (that serves on the Jedi council) but when he looks in the mirror, he secretly cackles.
Mamdani cast Charm Person, and even though Trump was rolling with advantage, his WIS score was poor even in his best years. Hasn't worn off yet.
Mamdani cast Voice of the emperor, he can only use it once a day
It helps that Mamdani is hella charismatic too. I remember being astounded by this when I first saw him talking about his policies in a campaign video (I had read a lot about him, and already was rooting for him, but not seen him speak up before then).
I'd say it looks good but this fuck doesn't deserve it.
Do you like magic tricks? The magician doesn't actually know how to do magic. He shoves his one fist up the ass of a dumb looking muppet and waves it in your face while screaming obscenities and racial slurs, while he masturbates you with the other.
That's what this is.
I think he’s dying. He’s probably at least losing (what little he had of) his mind.
“Oh, hellooooo…”
It's been 9 years since he started politics and I never understood why anyone ever backed him.
He matches their hateful energy.
They believe he will hurt the right people (to them); marginalized people.
They are largely happy that he is, and many are completely willing to accept massive sacrifice to get this.
Populism. He convinced everyone he was a billionaire outsider not beholden to anyone. The whole thing started from a fake rally to help him gain ratings for The Apprentice.
But like, his credibility is (and always was) total shit. How can there be 75 million people that gullible? To me, it couldn't have been more obvious he was lying if his pants had literally been on fire.
Trump didn’t create the grift. The system that enabled it was built long before he arrived.
Starting with Nixon’s “Southern strategy,” the Republican Party began reshaping political identity around grievance. After the Fairness Doctrine was repealed in 1987, partisan media like talk radio and Fox News grew without the obligation to present balanced perspectives. The Citizens United ruling in 2010 then opened the door to unlimited political spending, allowing well-funded groups to amplify fear-based messaging at scale. The Tea Party movement reinforced the idea that the threat came from within, not just from ideological opponents.
Over time, this narrative produced an ever-shifting villain: sometimes “liberals,” sometimes “socialists,” often just “them.” Orwell captured the mechanism in Animal Farm: “Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball.”
Trump didn’t invent that scapegoat. He inherited it, and then he turned the volume up.
To us, the grift is obvious. But for many, decades of messaging eroded trust in institutions and made the fear feel real. The lie works not because it persuades, but because it offers comfort.
Understanding that history doesn’t excuse it. It reminds us the machinery was built before Trump and will remain if we only confront the man instead of the system that produced him.
Bloom County cartoon strip roasted Trump as an asshole in the 80s. They even transplanted his brain into a cat.
Is there a source for this image? Looking a bit shopped.
There are multiple pictures from multiple sources that day.
Check out Mamdani's clothes between those two otherwise exact same photos. WTF media.
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