That guy in the White House seems to be considering getting involved in our upcoming NYC Mayor’s race. I can see the appeal for him.
One of the candidates is the incoming mayor, a guy so corrupt that he would likely be in prison by now if he hadn’t made a deal to sell his soul to you-know-who. The other is the former governor, a man who seems to be running only to get past the sordid reason that he was forced from office.
I can see how the guy in the White House would want either of these people as NYC Mayor. After all, each represents an aspect of his own personality. When you sum them together, you end up with his own unique combination of corruption and creepiness.
Meanwhile, their opponent running on the Democratic ticket represents everything he hates: Running on a platform of compassion, standing up for working people, looking out for those New Yorkers who ride the bus every day, for those who work hard to get food on the table for their families, speaking to the openminded multiculturalism that is NY’s great pride and strength.
In short, everything the guy in the White House is trying to destroy. It’s no wonder he wants to get involved.
The silver lining here is that he may actually do it — he be so self-absorbed that he doesn’t realize how deeply he is loathed in NY City. And if he does endorse either of those other two candidates, New Yorkers will respond by voting in Mamdani by a landslide.