The Elitist Media continues to be abuzz in regards to the current assembly between President Donald Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and subsequent Oval Workplace presser. Opposite to expectations and hype, the tone was cordial and lightweight.
This chumminess seems to have dismayed some inside the Acela Class. Witness Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, as aired on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, November twenty third, 2025:
New Yorker’s @sbg1 marvels, not fortunately, at how Trump used Mamdani: “I assumed as a matter of political altering the story, I feel that is the place Donald Trump excels as a result of we’re speaking a few yuck-yuck photograph alternative within the Oval Workplace and never the kind of unimaginable scene… pic.twitter.com/JFB5taPNEJ
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) November 23, 2025
SUSAN GLASSER: I imply, sticking it to billionaires — I imply, perhaps that’s the reason in the long run that Donald Trump wanted to have and needed to have this assembly on Friday as a result of there was this indelible picture, it appeared to me, of this Trump presidency earlier within the week if you had the billionaire leaders of the American tech economic system, together with Elon Musk, who was banished however now apparently is again, within the White Home for a proper, virtually state stage dinner for the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, you realize, the bone noticed man. And right here it’s, Trump maybe desirous to get his populist credentials again at a time when there’s persistent inflation within the economic system, at a time when his ballot numbers are sinking. And I assumed, you realize, as a matter of political altering the story, I feel, you realize, that is the place Donald Trump excels as a result of we’re speaking a few yuk-yuk photograph alternative within the Oval Workplace and never the, you realize, the kind of unimaginable scene of these billionaires within the White Home, actually echoing the January twentieth inauguration of Donald Trump the place the billionaires got seats of honor forward of most of the Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s personal social gathering.
It seems to flee Glasser that one can have elementary ideological variations whereas needing to work collectively to carry good issues to New York. Thus, her dismay at what she derided because the “yuk-yuk photograph alternative.”
Maybe she was anticipating Mamdani to come back into the Oval and carry out Communist Resistance Theater. As a result of he didn’t, Glasser feels that Trump co-opted Mamdani and used him to deflect from earlier conferences stuffed with billionaires.
Glasser thinks Trump gained political factors from utilizing Mamdani, for granted of whether or not the assembly was a win-win. The present zero-sum media recreation permits for no different potentialities.
