Trump och Mamdani = Sant, Attention!

 


De har kallat varandra kommunist och fascist, men i Vita huset föll Donald Trump och Zohran Mamdani i varandras armar. 

När Mamdani fick frågan om han tycker att Trump är en fascist, klappade presidenten honom vänskapligt på armen och sa: ”Det är OK, du kan bara säga ja. Det är lättare än att förklara.”
SvD 21 november 2025
https://www.svd.se/a/n1RGaL/mma-matchen-mot-mamdani-mest-mys


At multiple points during the meeting, Mr. Trump jumped in to defend Mr. Mamdani from pointed questions from reporters. The president patted Mr. Mamdani on the arm when he was asked by a reporter if Mr. Trump was a fascist. Mr. Mamdani smiled awkwardly, and the president advised him to just say yes.
“That’s OK,” Mr. Trump said. “You can just say yes. That’s easier. It’s easier than explaining.”

When a reporter pointed out that Mr. Mamdani called the president a “despot,” Mr. Trump interrupted: “I’ve been called much worse than a despot. So it’s not that insulting.”
New York Times 21 November 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/trump-mamdani-white-house-meeting.html

How Trump wields and uses attention.He’s a master at it.

Attention; the world’s most valuable resource. 

The notion now is that at every single moment when you are competing for someone’s attention, you are competing against literally every piece of content ever produced.

I  /Chris Hayes/ think this is the key transformational insight of Donald Trump to politics.

Ezra Klein New York Times 17 January 2025

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-trump-wields-and-uses-attentionhes.html


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