New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Monday that he reached out to the White House to arrange a meeting with Donald Trump, signaling a cooling of tensions between the two leaders after months of harsh rhetoric.
“My team reached out to the White House to fulfill a commitment I made to New Yorkers over the course of this campaign," Mamdani told reporters at a food pantry in the Bronx, adding that the proposed meeting was part of a pledge to voters to “address the affordability crisis that is pushing so many of them out of the city.”
"We are seeing his actions and that of his administration in Washington leading to the exact opposite effect for New Yorkers, and I will go to make the case to the president and to anyone, frankly, that these are the kinds of things we need to change if we want to make it easier for New Yorkers and for Americans to afford the day-to-day necessities of their life,” Mamdani said.
This will not go well for him. This is a bad move, fucking ICE will be waiting to take him off to parts unknown. Or they will find a way to make him look bad and Trump look good. Realize the powers really in charge aren’t going let him influence shit. Mark my words nothing good comes from speaking with Trump. They might even threaten him to drop some of his ambitious plans and settle for less or else. He won’t be turning Trump around on anything because the truth is Trump isn’t in charge in the background.
Worse case Donny boy dies from rage filled stroke and they blame him and Vance because president and the real shit begins.
No, I disagree. The reason why ICE can get away with the shit it does is that they go after the powerless, the nobodies. The eyes of the world are on this guy, if he gets illegally diappeared we will all notice.
Besides, if this guy really wants to run NYC, he is going to have to deal with narcissistic, entitled assholes on a daily basis. Why not start with the biggest one?
Dude Trump could shoot Mamdani on 5th Ave and nothing will change. You think if ICE disappearing him will finally make us revolt? Doesn’t matter if we are watching they want us to watch. They want to show how powerful they are and we are not.
Regardless this will go the way it did with the president of Ukraine. They be yelling at him and telling him that he should be thanking them. In no way will they allow the meeting show Mamdani as strong or successful. The meeting a fucking tramp.
Several million New Yorkers will.
Being afraid of interacting with them is what they want. Don’t let them win before anything even happens. To use your example, if Trump did shoot Mamdani on 5th Avenue then it is our responsibility as citizens to respond appropriately. If we can’t decide that something like that is a red line then we might as well stop talking about resistance in any form. Don’t go down that path.
They wouldn’t do this when the better option for them is to make Mamdani’s ambitions for New York as hard as possible to bring to fruition. Even if they only hinder him a bit, any inability at all from Mamdani to do every single thing he wants to do (and things they claim he wants to do) will see relentless coverage in the right wing media (and likely also some from liberal media) in order to paint it as a “failed project” and how “unrealistic socialism is.” That serves them far better than just disappearing the guy
I see your point about how they will try and make Mamdani look as bad as possible in the meeting but he could withstand it far better than Zelenskyy, I reckon. Nothing wrong with Zelenskyy on that front, just it’s obvious Mamdani would do better