Members of rightwing base disorientated by cordial Oval Office meeting – but not all Trump supporters downcast

A flurry of social media posts from MAGA influencers have laid bare the disorientation felt by members of Trump’s base at the spectacle of Friday’s cordial Oval Office meeting with Mamdani, who the president previously painted as a “communist lunatic”.

“Wild to allow a jihadist communist to stand behind the president’s desk in the Oval Office. Sad to see,” wrote far-right activist Laura Loomer, one of Trump’s most fervent online backers.

She returned to the theme several times. “I had to drink a bottle of ginger ale today after seeing Mamdani in the Oval Office because it physically nauseates me seeing Islamic jihadists infiltrate our government and continue to get a pass to promote Islamic jihad and anti-American values with zero push back,” Loomer wrote.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    It’s hilarious to see them realise that he’s a fucking idiot

    Having said that, didn’t they often say 'I like him because I can relate to him"?

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          2 months ago

          To be fair, it’s strongly suspected that Trump had extensive ties to the New York Mafia.

          I mean, Jesus Christ, he was a real estate developer in New York in the '70s and '80s. There’s no possible way he wasn’t in bed with the mob.

          Say what you will about Trump, he’s probably closer to gangster - as in, closer to being a literal Mafia don - than like 99% of us.

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            2 months ago

            No he doesn’t, he talks like a fucking idiot. He fried his brain from too many amphetamines, which is very apparent in his late night Twitter rants to anyone with experience taking that stuff.

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            2 months ago

            The only way Trump is “like a gangster” is that both mistake fear of being harmed for respect.