Ashley Allison: Mamdani ‘Slightly Outplayed’ Trump in Presser

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ALLISON: "Wait, can we go back to the press conference, thought? Just because I don't know if everyone watched the whole press conference, but at the very end of the press conference, they dismissed — it was masterfully done. They dismissed the President and said, 'He is out of time, but the mayor will stay and fill the rest of your questions.' And Trump knew, even if he didn't want to answer the tough questions he would get, that if he walked away, it would look like it. So he literally had to stand there as long as Mamdani — and Mamdani kept saying, like, 'You can go if you want. You can go if you want.' And he just had to stay there behind, not in front, not next to, not being the one at the podium. It was the command — and I just think that, like, as someone who can acknowledge that Donald Trump is really good at making television, even if I don't like to watch the television, he has this stage presence, he has his way. Mamdani, I will say, slightly outplayed Donald Trump today with that press conference."