Trump Loves Mamdani! All Is Forgiven! (For Now)

 

seems like just yesterday President's Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt was telling Fox News, in answer to a question about Trump's opinion about Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic party's then candidate for mayor of New York,  that the "Democrat" Party's main constituents are Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals."

Lovefest

So, if the Democratic mayor of New York City has been elected by that group, one might expect Mr. Trump to have placed him under arrest when Mr. Mamdani arrived at the White House and thrown him in jail with those six Democratic Congressmen who Mr. Trump says are traitors who should be tried, executed by hanging (for the crime of reminding soldiers they cannot obey illegal orders).

And Mr. Trump repeatedly threatened cut New York City off from all federal funding if its voters elected Mr. Mamdani mayor.  Trump was effectively threatening New York with excommunication from the United States, such was the violation of virtue for electing Mamdani.  It was like South Carolina seceding from the Union because voters elected Lincoln, only in reverse.  The word Mad Dog remembers most from the MAGA mob when it came to Mamdani is "communist." Which was sort of a golden oldie from the Gold Oval Room, as Mad Dog had almost forgotten about that boogeyman, Communist!, and it seemed almost quaint, like "monarchist." 

So we all had every right to expect some major smack down of Mamdani and New York City now that its voters had elected this Hamas terrorist anti-Christian, god hating, criminal loving, illegal alien.

Rehabilitated

But no!

In a twist that would set George Orwell's had spinning, Mr. Trump welcomed Mr. Mamdani, that once and maybe still Hamas leader, terrorist and criminal, with open arms in the gold idolatry ladened Oval Office. 

Oddly, as Mad Dog Googled Republican slurs against Mamdani, conspicuously absent was the word, "Pedophile." Might have just missed it. Mad Dog does not have a research department--his fact checking department is kept busy enough, but no pedophile accusations. 

Ain't We Got Fun?

So Mamdani, until yesterday, was simply a Hamas terrorist (or sympathizer, which is the same thing) and maybe a criminal, and maybe an illegal alien, because, you know, after Justice Kavanaugh said it was fine to abscond with anyone who looked to ICE agents like a bad guy, Mr. Mamdani would surely fit that.

Word on QANON and Breitbart and The Storm Front was that Mamdani has a taste for pets--keep your cats and dogs indoors when Mayor Mamdani is in the neighborhood. He likes them with Haitian sauce.

Orwell's 1984 depicted a world in which there were three warring supernations: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, and alliances kept shifting. So, if you were a citizen of Oceania, one day your worst enemy was Eastasia, but the next week you may discover Eastasia is actually your friend but Eurasia is now (and always has been) the nasty enemy.  Similarly, in Orwell's Animal Farm , the truths were written in chalk on a blackboard, as truth needed to be updated, and so "Four legs good, two legs bad" one day became "Four legs good, two legs better," as the pigs had taken to walking on their two hind trotters.

So, you know, you grow; you evolve. All good.

And so we have Mr. Trump, with his infinite flexibility erasing and replacing that chalk board of his mind. 

Of course, this pig trotter thing has already been seen when President Zelensky (a bone fide, not going to run leader) was thrown out of the Oval gold room, then welcomed back, then abandoned again as Mr. Putin has been shifting from being simply misunderstood, to a man wronged, to a very fine person.

Who knows? Tomorrow we may wake up to read, "Israel bad. Hamas good."