The *Logic* Behind Trump’s Mamdani Conversion

Remember that TV show “V” where the aliens showed up in gigantic ships (an image they ripped off from Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, but no matter) and then they did a mind conversion process on people? That’s what Lindsey Graham used to get compared to when he did his 180 on Donald Trump but if you want to see an even more amazing example of the concept, check out Trump with Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office today. Ron Filipkowski at Meidas Touch had his reaction and then I’m going to tell you mine.

 Zohran Mamdani visited Trump today at the WH, and it did not go the way most Republicans thought it would. Trump has always recognized and fawned over star power, and that is exactly the way he treated Mamdani. Fox reporter to Mamdani: “You referred to Trump as despot… Trump interrupts: I’ve been called much worse than a despot. So it’s not that insulting.”

… I was laughing hysterically during this entire meeting with Trump praising Mamdani. It was a one-way love fest from Trump to Mamdani, with Zohran playing it cool the entire time.

… Trump: “I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up. I have had a lot of meetings with the heads of major countries, nobody cared. The biggest people come over from other countries and nobody cares but they did care about this meeting, and it was a great meeting.”

… Q to Trump – “Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani admin? Trump: Yeah, I would.”

… Republican campaign consultants built their entire midterm strategy around making Mamdani into the devil incarnate and the face of Democratic Party, then Trump slobbers all over him today in the Oval!

… Trump then proceeded to end Elise Stefanik’s campaign for governor: Q – “Stefanik has campaigned on calling Mamdani a jihadist. Do you think you’re standing next to a jihadist? Trump: No… but she’s out there campaigning. You say things sometimes in a campaign. You’d have to ask her about that. I met with a man who is a rational person.”

… I’m dying!!! I soooo wish I could see her face right now. (First time I’ve ever said that).

… Mamdani: “I told the president that, you know, so much of the focus of our campaign has been on the cost of living crisis and when we asked those New Yorkers who had voted for the president, when we saw an increase in his numbers in NYC, that came back to the same issue: Cost of living, cost of living, cost of living. Trump: We have to get Con Edison to start lowering their rates. Mamdani: Absolutely.”

… I just pissed my pants laughing. I’m crying!

… Trump: “He has a chance to do something great for NY and he does need the help from the fed govt. And we will be helping him. But he’s different than your average candidate. He came out of nowhere.”

… Love is love. There’s no point in fighting it.

Now I’m going to give you my theory: Trump can’t stand to lose. You know that. That’s what the entire “stollen election” conspiracy theory was about, that’s what the January 6 Capitol riot was about. Trump cannot stand to lose.

Now people of conviction will always lose some of the time because that’s the way things are in politics. The pendulum swings back and forth. Smart politicians know that so they keep the number of enemies that they make to a minimum. Trump is neither smart nor a politician. He’s a cult leader. And he needs to be universally loved. He cannot stand to lose.

So that’s why he’s decided to align himself with Zohran Mamdani after originally making him Satan incarnate. Trump merely wants to be on the winning side. That’s the entire story.

And of course other Republicans are going to be losing their marbles over this one. Laura Ingraham, who believes the worst about Mamdani, should be losing hers. And I can’t wait for her to interview Trump again and hear him explain this 180 degree turn that he did.

This is no different from the Epstein files U-turn. Same reason. Trump wants to be on the winning side, even though he’s got to know on some level that unless those files are totally sanitized by Pam Bondi — and maybe they already have been — that there’s no way that the likes of Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman and Bill Clinton are going to look bad but he, Trump, will come out smelling like a rose.

But that’s not the important point. The point is that by keeling over in the face of adversity, Trump in his own mind has now aligned himself with the winning side.

Remember, Trump got into politics for the celebrity of it all. He never knew it was so much work being president. He thought it was ceremonial, cut a few ribbons, send Marine One out for Chinese, kick back and play golf. And that’s pretty much how Trump has *governed.* Trump just wants to be the center of attention and you get to be the center of attention when you align with the winning side.

Less than a month ago Trump was telling people to vote for Andrew Cuomo because even though Cuomo stank, he was better than Zohran Mamdani. Now Mamdani is the man of the hour and I’m sure he is shrieking with laughter when he’s alone, contemplating this turn around.

What or who is Trump going to do a U-turn on next? Because I know that if you had told me even two weeks ago that Mamdani would be the darling of Trump in the Oval Office on the same day that Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress because she was tired of being Trump’s metaphorical battered wife, I would have called my doctor to see about some new meds.

We live in very strange times and it’s not even 2026 yet.

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