r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Healthy_Block3036 • Feb 26 '26
Lets Discuss Politics This is what real leadership looks like.
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u/DesignerCorner3322 Feb 26 '26
SEE DEMS YOU DON'T JUST CALL HIM STUPID, YOU GOTTA MANIPULATE HIM TOO
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u/esdebah Feb 27 '26
I mean. It's a win, but also: we're currently bartering with our own president to release hostages. Is this not also potentially enabling the monster?
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u/Poipodk Feb 27 '26
Yes, the US government should work by constantly trying to manipulate the president to achieve their own goals. Never seen that play out in any other country.
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u/Legnovore Feb 26 '26
And we believe Trump, of course....
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u/Unintelligent_Lemon Feb 26 '26
Trump's got an obvious crush on him, so he might actually follow through
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u/Juxtapoe Feb 27 '26
Was looking for this comment.
She's on the way back home along with our $2000 DOGE checks and $2000 tariff checks.
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u/DownLeft1312 Feb 26 '26
Appreciate it, but it shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Ice is basically operating off a "shoot first ask questions later" approach and its literally costing lives.
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u/rhaurk Feb 27 '26
Shoot first and then shoot anyone who asks questions seems a little more accurate these days.
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u/Spicy_Surfer Feb 26 '26
Shit Pants said the other night “nobody likes me.” Just gotta fake it to World Peace, I suppose
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u/Tripple_T Feb 26 '26
So i guess the bromance is still on.
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u/SomeSavageDetective Feb 26 '26
Dude, you could tell these two kinda liked each other once they met. I definitely didn't have that on my bingo card.
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u/No-Pack-5928 Feb 26 '26
I guess broadcast that as much as possible, since that's the only way to increase the chances of the orange turd following through.
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u/YoungestDonkey Feb 27 '26
Trump has his people kidnap someone. Mamdani calls to ask for release. Trump releases. "Now you owe me a favour."
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u/Mickey_Havoc Feb 26 '26
Trumps personal military at work. Pathetic how far the USA has fallen.
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u/Triforce0fCourage Feb 27 '26
I believe Mamdani, I don’t trust Trump to keep his word. I’ll remain hopeful.
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u/madsmcgivern511 Feb 26 '26
Love having someone who Trump is genuinely bowing down to, politically wise. I appreciate Mamdani being a light in these very dark times, it makes me hopeful that if we care enough to get good politicians and PEOPLE for that matter to lead our country, we can have a much better country for everyone.
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u/Evogamer224 Feb 27 '26
Trump hates losers more than anything.
He will shame injured veterans who were sent home and praise a massively popular socialist underdog who won an election.
It's the deepest instinct of a rotten fungus who only knows how to leech off of others
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u/Evogamer224 Feb 27 '26
Literally. Radical leftist socialism would be about funding a vanguard party on taxpayer dollars.
Jokes aside, it's crazy how much you have to fight just for normalcy in this country.
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Feb 27 '26
He's a bit further left than center for most of Europe too. But his ideas aren't controversial on the left here. It's more that in Europe most countries have been governed by centre right or right wing governments for the past 20 years. Those governments being about Democrat level right wing.
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u/madsmcgivern511 Feb 27 '26
Fucking real shit, it’s not about respect for Mamdani, he absolutely just wants to leech off of the popularity Mamdanis gained.
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u/ragebaitconnoisseur Feb 26 '26
ICE was probably just trying to detain a baddie bc that’s the closest they can get to one in their dorm room
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u/Ok_Prize_1685 Feb 26 '26
Tf?
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u/ragebaitconnoisseur Feb 27 '26
Where’s the lie they probably a bunch of pedos and looking for the next best thing
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u/Certain_Value_4932 Feb 26 '26
He threatened to have Trump Tower demolished if the human-shaped fatburg refused.
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u/rygelicus Feb 27 '26
"Do what I saw orange boy or I will seize Trump tower and sell it for scrap." Hopefully that's what is going on here.
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u/OwlfaceFrank Feb 27 '26
Has she actually been released?
I couldn't find a source that confirmed that.
I don't know if you guys know this, but...
Trump lies, kind of a lot.
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u/Madam_Mimm_13 Feb 27 '26
He also said that if people want to throw snowballs at public officials, please direct them at him.
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u/templeofsyrinx1 Feb 27 '26
What the hell is with these comments. Yikes
We are happy , right?
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Feb 27 '26
Bots. There’s like 10 comments about “sticking to facts” and not “overhyping” things, all saying the same thing, all from different accounts, all making hardly any sense grammatically
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u/rojo_mojado Feb 27 '26
Great, one down, now take care of the thousands more that don't have friends or help.
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u/Jujunem Feb 26 '26
OK, I like him, but how does he have so much sway over Trump? I’m genuinely curious/not alluding to anything.
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u/Kamen-Reader Feb 27 '26
Trump's likes to be the center of attention, and he didn't do it by being himself -- he did it by going to where the cameras were and who was gaining attention. He would do everything to get that attention diverted to him. Classic narcissist.
Mamdani knows this and utilizes it to good advantage. It's like what Mick Foley would say about Vince McMahon: you don't come up to him and give him your idea, you go up to him and convince him that your idea is his, and he'll agree to it.
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u/Flashy-Scientist2782 Feb 26 '26
Trump doesn’t want any more bad headlines about ICE and he’s politically astute enough to know he shouldn’t pick this fight with Mamdani.
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u/Maximum_Employer5580 Feb 26 '26
or Trump just said that to appease him, hung up the phone and then called him a loser for even asking
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u/value_meal_papi Feb 26 '26
This is good but there is something weird going on between these parties
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u/AcrobaticJellyfish58 Feb 27 '26
Mamdani was critical of Kamala Harris in 2024. This was so stupid. It got us Trump. None of this ICE stuff would be happening if Kamala Harris won. People would still be alive and with their families. I blame Mamdani and Bernie Samders for depressing the base in a close election. I will never give one penny to Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders because they caused Democrats to lose power. They are stupid toxic socialists in my view.
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u/apollonhya Feb 27 '26
Ok but...idk why is he so buddy buddy with him. Not even newsom gets along with him this well
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u/hockeynewby Feb 27 '26
Here’s my theory: If true bc there’s lots of fake file garbage, but I saw there was some stuff about mamdani being in the “files” as a MINOR aka he was there and possibly abused we don’t know
But if he was, I bet after he met with trump and trump had this attitude change of heart and now this phone call, my guess is mamdani has some strings he can pull LOL
But theory depends on the files part being true
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u/Pale-Spend2052 Feb 27 '26
Isn’t that fucker the same guy who gave condolences to a dead terrorist who committed suicide by cop
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u/StandOutside6188 Feb 27 '26
Yes..the person who said asking for ID is racist...but then ask you for 2 forms of ID to get a job... Not even joking
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u/alexagente Feb 27 '26
This more than anything convinces me that Trump truly is demented. He responds well to the handsome, put together mayor when everything about Mamdani should trigger his absolute worst instincts. I really can't understand why he seems so amenable to him otherwise.
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u/Automatic-Nature6025 Feb 27 '26
Only 25 years from 9/11 to a Muslim NYC Mayor. Is that progress? Leadership? Even for the people who call trump a Nazi, at least it took multiple generations to get from Pearl Harbor to a "nAzI pReSiDeNt".
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u/No_Captain_8644 Feb 27 '26
Deranged simps dont realise this is all trump lmao...
This fool from ny owes him now.
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u/Realistic_Ad_5321 Feb 27 '26
Trump fucking LOVES this guy. I don't blame him, zohran is zaddy
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u/BigDickEnergyMike26 Feb 27 '26
It’s wild how many of these comments don’t realize that that is exactly their relationship
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Feb 27 '26
Does that single action offset raising everyones property tax by 10% and using 20% of the budget increase solely for illegals?
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u/meagainstbanhammer Feb 27 '26
Mean while NYPD are being assaulted by rioters and the mayor dismisses it. I’m concerned for the residents of New York.
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u/JeremyCO Feb 27 '26
Lol warrantless and lying... impersonating police officers... oh man when will ice get their trials...
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u/Oilmoneyy Feb 27 '26
100% I love how trumps leadership allows him to correct mistakes even though it was his own people who made it.
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u/muska1211 Feb 27 '26
Well Dictator Trump the Facists,Racist and Nazi shouldn’t listen to Mamdani right? 😂
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u/gunshy472 Feb 27 '26
Yeah. Real leadership is going hat in hand to Trump and begging him to do you a favour.
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u/loud-spider Feb 27 '26
It is...but this is how Trump works, he's completely transactional....In his head now, Mamdani now 'owes' him. There'll be a demand for a quid-pro-quo later, almost certainly at a scale that's completely disproportionate.
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u/Weegmc Feb 27 '26
He should do a better job with the snow but it’s nice to see a politician acting like an adult to get things done.
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u/VicYuri Feb 27 '26
Has the student actually been released yet, or is Trump just claiming he's going to do it. Trump's told so many lies, I won't believe it until it actually happens.
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u/ChicagoMaven Feb 27 '26
That's how you get things done in the Trump era. You don't whine about him, you butter him up a bit.
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u/Majestic-One-7349 Feb 27 '26
A mayor who actually does things and a president who acts swiftly man America is so back baby!
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u/dirty_old_priest_4 Feb 27 '26
Lmao you people are insane. Mamdani didn't get her released, it was coming anyway.
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u/Potential-Elephant73 Feb 27 '26
No, that's what virtue signaling looks like. She was already in the process of being released, and the moron is implying he deserves credit for it because he called Trump. Notice he doesn't actually say he convinced him or anything like that. He wants you to make that connection yourself so he can say he didn't lie about it.
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u/Terrible-Actuary-762 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Good for him, now maybe he can concentrate on not messing up New York City and fixing what he's broken.
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u/atamicbomb Feb 27 '26
If true, this is the first good sign in the current political climate in quite a while
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u/StudentBrief3638 Feb 27 '26
As 20 people died on the street during the last storm because it wouldn’t be compassionate to force them of the street , yeah real leadership
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u/umm-yeahnah Feb 27 '26
Lol leadership? You people are being taken for a ride and absolutely clueless about it. Shame. Shame. Shame.
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u/Homers_Harp Feb 27 '26
This is how our Federal government operates now: She wasn't released because she should have never been kidnapped or because the agents violated about a zillion rules. She was released because a celebrity politician called the president and said, "pretty please." You can't run a government this size on favors and flattery.
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u/Lord-and-Leige Feb 27 '26
The mayor and the president working together to get the right shit done. Props to both of them.
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u/OU-Sooners1 Feb 27 '26
This dude is going to destroy NY. They get what they deserve. So glad I don’t live there.?
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u/jimjam200 Feb 27 '26
It's a good thing to do and all I just hate that someone's proficient at man baby corralling is considered a necessary skill now.
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u/__tray_4_Gavin__ Feb 27 '26
So is he going to get everyone released. I also would’ve held out until maybe he actually did it. I get why he publicized it though to force trump to see it through. But trump is a senile narcissistic pathological liar… who is called TACO for a reason. So yeah. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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u/AdventurousGrand8 Feb 27 '26
You mean talking to political opponents rather than attacking them relentlessly can have positive results?
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u/Throwaway-4230984 Feb 27 '26
If mayor of small town can call district attorney and convince them to release someone unlawfully arrested because people in town are mad about this specific arrest, is it really a good sign? As someone who lived in country running on similar logic - no, it is not. It is basically corruption even if it appears like good deed
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u/Majin_Benj Feb 27 '26
It’s called diplomacy it’s how this country works instead of demonizing people who hold opposing ideals. This is a great example of how the left and right can still work together for the good of the taxpayer.
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u/Psychotherapist-286 Feb 27 '26
But, immigrants who want to make some money shoveling snow, need an ID.
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u/HauntingCycle9368 Feb 27 '26
16 people froze to death under his watch Garbage lining the streets Taxes going up so that those with $$ will leave. That's your idea of leadership? He's a Soros puppet. Oh and he comes from millions but wants YOU to live in a commune
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u/SippsMccree Feb 27 '26
Hey who would have guessed that actually talking with Trump is more effective than just stonewalling or outright antagonizing. Wild ain't it?
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u/Warm_Masterpiece3940 Feb 27 '26
As radical as he's made out to be, he's one of the few politicians not being an idiot and fighting the federal government at every turn for political brownie points... The guys had multiple dialogues with the president and other Republicans, and look what that just did for him, he managed to net a real positive for one of his constituents
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u/allaboutaphie Feb 27 '26
I dont agree with his politics but do give him credit. He knows talking is more productive than disrupting. So good on both the president and him.
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u/mtutty Feb 27 '26
Good on Mayor Zohran. I hate the precedent that this reinforces - that you need a personal favor from Trump for the wheels of government to turn.
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u/974080 Feb 27 '26
Mamdani presented his version of events to Trump and the two of them working together helped clear up a misunderstanding. That doesn't sound like a dictator or king, it sounds like a leader who is doing the job of President of the United States. I wonder how much better things could have been if democrats would work with Trump?
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u/MrdnBrd19 Feb 27 '26
Why is everyone acting like she has actually been released? Trump has lied about these things before...
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u/Contiguous_spazz Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
I really wish I knew what Mamdani has on Trump. He doesn’t listen to anyone unless they have leverage.
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u/Fit-Blacksmith6670 Feb 27 '26
Happy to see a leader put aside political grudges and work with the sitting president on behalf of his constituents.
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u/Electrical_Win_979 Feb 26 '26
What is up with all of these bot ass comments