TUESDAY: Sitting president reverts to form!

 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2026

Mamdani does Fox News Sunday: Some things never change. Or if they do, they change back.  

After a brief flirtation with reality, the sitting president has reverted to what may be his oldest way. The New York Times reports the reversion to a tired, inane old form:

Trump Veers Back Into Claims of Rigged Election

For years, President Trump has claimed without evidence that any election he lost or even feared losing was rigged. So it was a surprise to many when, on election night after his party was routed in the midterms last week, he said he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results.

That lasted less than a week.

“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Mr. Trump wrote on Monday on social media, renewing his efforts to sow doubt about the outcome in the face of staggering Democratic wins. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”

And so on from there.

Sad! At first, he flirted with a blindingly obvious piece of basic reality. But soon, the president reverted, with the Times citing past manifestations of this persistent madness. 

This madness is very old hat.   

A different strain of public behavior—a type of "new morning"—was visible on Fox News Sunday this weekend. In an interview videotaped last Wednesday, Shannon Bream—one of the sane ones—spoke with Mayor Mamdani, quickly resulting in this:

BREAM (11/4/26): So you are a self-described democratic socialist—DSA.  

MAMDANI (chuckling): Here on Fox!

BREAM: We welcome them all! We're glad that you accepted our invitation. We're glad to have you.

MAMDANI: Absolutely.

[...]

BREAM: OK. So, get rid of borders?  

MAMDANI: No   

BREAM: Get rid of SCOTUS.

MAMDANI: No.   

BREAM: Get rid of jails.

MAMDANI: No.   

BREAM: So, do you think DSA is going to kick you out?   

MAMDANI: No.

The interview continued from there. The mayor was batting away official DSA policy planks. The usual miscreants at Fox News had used those peculiar planks, all through this past summer and fall, to try to take down the Dems.

Despite her employer, Bream isn't crazy. In our view, she and Mamdani created an interview session worth pondering. No one got rude / mad / crazy or nuts, with Mamdani explicitly saying that he doesn't support the DSA's less plausible policy stances.

The DSA has some strange, other-worldly policy planks. The mayor just said no.