While the president changed his tune as to how he views Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Mayor-elect, on “Meet the Press” with moderator Kristen Welker, said that he still believes Donald Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot.” We agree!
“In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is, in fact, a fascist, a word that you’ve used in the past,” Welker said. “You were about to answer, then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said, quote, that’s okay, you can just say yes, it’s easier than explaining it. So Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?”
“And after President Trump said that, I said yes,” Mamdani said.
“So you do?” Welker said as if that needed any clarification.
“And that’s something that I’ve said in the past, I say it today,” the mayor-elect said. “And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment. And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.”
“You’ve also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote, attack on our democracy,” Welker said. “You’ve called him a despot. “Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy?”
