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(17,015 posts)
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 09:16 AM Sunday

'The Day Donald Trump Turned Into Mamdani's Beta'

"Once upon a time in a galaxy not so far away, a galaxy lacquered in generational wealth, tax filings, and the faint smell of resentment, a baby boy was born into privilege so thick it practically padded the floors. On paper, he had everything. In practice, he grew up in a cold, loveless mausoleum masquerading as a mansion. A childhood of nannies instead of nurturing, transactions instead of tenderness. In that house, affection was replaced by assets and compassion was replaced by contracts. The message tattooed onto his psyche before he could form sentences was simple and catastrophic. Love is a commodity. People are possessions. Everything can be taken if you just grab hard enough."

"Yesterday, like every damn day in this deranged funhouse America we are staggering through, but yesterday especially, was a Category Five political psychodrama. One of Donald Trump’s most rabid foot soldiers, Marjorie Taylor Greene, announced she was resigning and went full scorched earth on her way out, detonating her own party like she had stumbled across a self destruct switch while searching for the light. And immediately before that detonation, as if the universe were running a slapstick double feature, we got the absolutely unhinged spectacle of Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani sharing the same oxygen."

"Not because the mayor elect of New York City called Trump a fascist to his face while Trump nodded like a man being praised for remembering deodorant. Not because the memes mutated so fast epidemiologists should have been involved. Not even because Mamdani stood there youthful and articulate and incandescent while Trump sat, because he cannot stand for more than a commercial break, body sagging flaccid like the depressed tongue of a mud covered boot, all collapsed will and wounded pride in a single pathetic heap."

"It was the revelation inside the spectacle. The reminder. The thing about Donald Trump most people forget until he is seated beside someone with actual presence."

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https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofromjerz/p/the-day-donald-trump-turned-into?r=r38w4&utm_medium=ios

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'The Day Donald Trump Turned Into Mamdani's Beta' (Original Post) sop Sunday OP
I doubt this whole narrative bucolic_frolic Sunday #1
Mamdani exhibited how easy it is to manipulate Trump underpants Sunday #2
Some very talented writing here. Amaryllis Sunday #3

bucolic_frolic

(53,444 posts)
1. I doubt this whole narrative
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 09:24 AM
Sunday

Making nice is a smokescreen. In the long run, Mamdani's administration will run into resistance from Trump's White House in many ways. Things are not what they appear to be.

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