Valuetainment - June 05, 2026


ā€œGame Recognizes Gameā€ - Mehdi Hasan Claims Trump GOT PLAYED By Mamdani


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

233.48

Word count

1,281

Sentence count

149

Harmful content

Toxicity

7

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Hate speech

4

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Summary

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Zoran Mamdani is a man of many talents. He's smart, charming, and has a great relationship with President Donald Trump. But does that make him a bad guy? Is he a bad person? Or is he a good man?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You think that's the part with Mamdani, he's got a little bit of that Obama-esque thing going for him.
00:00:05.300 For sure. I mean, look, he won over your guy.
00:00:07.800 Yeah. You talking about Cuomo or you talking about Sliwa?
00:00:09.940 I'm talking about Donald Trump.
00:00:11.060 Oh, Trump.
00:00:11.600 He won him over. He went to the white, you saw him in the white.
00:00:14.380 Tell me you don't love the fact that you're saying my guy, that my guy said, just tell him how you feel.
00:00:19.180 Tell me you don't respect that.
00:00:20.080 That was an amazing movie.
00:00:20.620 Tell me you don't respect that.
00:00:21.460 I respect Mamdani for pulling it off.
00:00:22.880 But do you respect that Trump's like, just tell him you don't like me.
00:00:25.320 I don't respect it. I don't understand it.
00:00:26.200 You can't say that.
00:00:27.000 I swear to God, I don't understand it.
00:00:27.620 Dude, you know you respect the fact that...
00:00:29.880 I've studied Donald Trump, unfortunately,
00:00:32.040 through no choice of my own, for 12 years.
00:00:34.400 I moved here months before he came down that golden escalator.
00:00:37.140 You can say it. You respected that.
00:00:37.880 I do not respect Donald Trump.
00:00:39.060 But I watched that clip, and I genuinely...
00:00:41.520 I'm someone who...
00:00:42.180 Ask me about Trump.
00:00:42.840 I could talk about Trump all day long.
00:00:44.000 I know everything about Trump.
00:00:45.400 That moment still is...
00:00:46.760 He looks at Mamdani the way I've never seen him look at anyone.
00:00:49.960 I've never seen him look at Melania the way he looks at Zoran Mamdani.
00:00:52.520 Right? In love.
00:00:53.660 Just in awe.
00:00:54.160 He goes on Sid Rosenberg's radio show.
00:00:56.260 You see that?
00:00:56.760 Sid Rosenberg.
00:00:57.300 He's a jihadist. 1.00
00:00:58.420 Mr. President, he hates you. 1.00
00:00:59.480 Nah, he's a good guy.
00:01:00.560 He's at the State of the Union.
00:01:01.220 And that still doesn't get you to say you respect Trump.
00:01:03.020 I don't understand why.
00:01:04.220 But can you tell me why?
00:01:05.120 Yeah, I think he respects talent.
00:01:06.920 But honestly, like...
00:01:07.560 Like game recognizes game.
00:01:09.420 No, it's, look, you're here.
00:01:11.200 I like your talent.
00:01:12.800 And I watch and I see what you're doing.
00:01:14.400 Listen, we may not agree on, you know, 50% of the things.
00:01:16.740 But he's not like that with most other people.
00:01:17.800 But no, he is.
00:01:18.680 He respects talent.
00:01:20.120 And he's got it.
00:01:21.660 Fawning over people?
00:01:22.480 Trump doesn't fawn over people.
00:01:23.180 To bring the guy over...
00:01:25.120 He's done it with a few different people.
00:01:26.900 Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Zoran Mamdani.
00:01:28.980 Those are my three.
00:01:29.300 What does that say about your Mamdani? 1.00
00:01:30.600 You've got to be careful with that. 1.00
00:01:31.680 That's why I don't understand.
00:01:32.240 You just put him in a bad place.
00:01:32.940 That's why I don't understand.
00:01:33.740 So be careful what you're doing.
00:01:34.820 That's why I don't understand.
00:01:36.620 Maybe a song compares Mamdani to Putin and Kim Jong-un.
00:01:39.940 Don't do that.
00:01:40.840 Out of context.
00:01:41.640 This is why no one likes right-wing media.
00:01:43.200 Out of context.
00:01:44.180 Just say you like the fact that they got along with him.
00:01:47.020 I do like the fact they got along.
00:01:48.000 I do as well.
00:01:48.800 Because Zoran Mamdani went, in his second time he went to New York,
00:01:51.420 he's so smart.
00:01:52.220 He knows how Trump is very easily won over.
00:01:54.480 He takes a front page of a newspaper, right?
00:01:56.580 He takes a fake newspaper front page.
00:01:58.340 Why has people not thought of this before?
00:01:59.900 With Trump saving New York, gives it to Trump.
00:02:02.420 And then he goes, can you free this Palestinian student who ICE just picked up?
00:02:05.520 By that afternoon, Trump has freed that student, right?
00:02:08.140 That is a mayor who knows how to get results and win over Trump without giving up his own self-respect,
00:02:12.780 without, like, fawning over him like I think Wes Moore was in one clip where they used it against him,
00:02:17.140 where he was very, very friendly with them.
00:02:17.840 Will you give any credit for the fact that by the afternoon, the most powerful man in the world gave him what he asked for?
00:02:23.380 No.
00:02:24.100 I'll tell you why.
00:02:25.160 Can I tell you why?
00:02:25.480 When is your birthday?
00:02:26.780 Where's the July 10th, 79?
00:02:28.440 You are this stubborn?
00:02:29.580 You've done your homework.
00:02:31.400 I'll tell you why I don't respect it.
00:02:33.240 Because I'm glad Zoran Mandani did it.
00:02:35.640 But what does it say about our leader, the President of the United States,
00:02:38.420 the Commander-in-Chief, the self-proclaimed leader of the free world,
00:02:41.140 that it's so easy to play this guy.
00:02:43.620 World leaders have been doing it for years.
00:02:45.640 This is the problem with him.
00:02:46.600 It's so easy to manipulate him.
00:02:48.240 He's so easy to be won over.
00:02:49.800 And I'm glad when my guy's doing it for a good cause.
00:02:52.840 But people do it for bad causes, too.
00:02:55.240 I'm sure we're going to talk about Israel.
00:02:56.600 Benjamin Netanyahu did it to get him into a war of Iran.
00:02:59.480 That's my problem.
00:03:00.280 You know, when Trump first went to Saudi Arabia after he got elected in 2017,
00:03:03.000 there was a story about how when he drove from the airport to the embassy or hotel,
00:03:06.480 wherever he was staying, the Saudis, this is in 2017.
00:03:09.600 Remember, his first trip as president was to Saudi Arabia.
00:03:11.980 The Saudis put up on billboards his tweets.
00:03:15.580 Can you imagine that, how smart that is?
00:03:17.620 That Trump is driving along and he's seeing his own quotes.
00:03:20.980 Like, these people know how to play him. 0.98
00:03:22.640 They know how to suck up to him. 0.98
00:03:23.800 Kim Jong-un. 0.71
00:03:24.240 Is it good quotes or is it bad quotes?
00:03:25.640 No, good.
00:03:26.140 They're praising him, right?
00:03:27.120 All right. 0.99
00:03:27.640 Every foreign leader knows how you can suck up to Donald Trump. 0.97
00:03:30.820 You praise him.
00:03:31.920 And now, in the second term, you give him money.
00:03:33.860 You can now bribe the president of the United States.
00:03:35.420 So do you think there's an element?
00:03:38.480 You've never been in sales before, but you're a businessman now, right?
00:03:41.240 Yeah, I'm selling.
00:03:42.000 I have to unfortunately do that stuff.
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00:03:50.100 By the way, respectfully, respectfully, 0.83
00:03:52.140 You leave mainstream.
00:03:54.120 You're at MSNBC.
00:03:55.080 I think you're the number one guy for them with the eyeballs you guys are getting.
00:03:57.640 I don't know what it was.
00:03:58.020 Young people online, for sure.
00:03:59.020 Yeah, for young people online, you're number one.
00:04:01.140 And then I don't know what the story is, what happened there.
00:04:04.040 We've read a lot of different stories.
00:04:05.920 They were giving you another job.
00:04:07.320 You chose to leave.
00:04:08.280 You do independent.
00:04:09.280 And then independently, you have, what, $3.5 million in reoccurring revenue 12 months later.
00:04:16.140 12 months later.
00:04:17.260 That's amazing to be able to do that.
00:04:18.940 And then today being a business guy, so it's great to have another.
00:04:22.280 And I've never run anything in my life, so I was very worried.
00:04:24.560 So maybe that PPE degree you got in economics,
00:04:27.100 that capitalist was inside of you, and we brought it out.
00:04:29.360 So that's great.
00:04:30.040 Okay.
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00:04:31.820 It's great to have you with us.
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00:04:37.920 Bernie's a millionaire.
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