Is Gen Z Finally Turning on Trump?
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Khalil Green is known as the Gen Z historian and also, I don't know, can we call him a presentorian or whatever that means? I guess that would be a thought leader on talking about what's happening now. I want to talk about where Gen Z is now, especially after 2024 and then we've seen what happened in 2025 and now in 2026. Well, let's talk about some current news. I'm wondering if the young folks, there were so many young people out, Khalil. First of all, welcome to the program. Thank you for doing this. But so many young people came out for the Knicks, either in person in New York or on social media. Did that touch a nerve with young people, especially Gen Z?
Yeah, I mean, it's great to have something that we can celebrate about. There's so many things to be pessimistic and sad and angry about in our country, but these small moments of joy, of massive joy being seen in person and on social media, I think that's very heartwarming. And I think leaders like Mamdani So many Gen Zers just feel great about him. So seeing him happy, seeing the city of New York happy, seeing the celebrations and everything in the midst of a very tumultuous political time period, I think it's something that we want to cling on to, that we want to see more of. And I'm just happy that there's something that we can finally sigh of relief, gather around and unify about.
Yeah, that was, you know, you're right, I believe, because timing is everything. The timing of the Knicks happening in New York could not come at a better time for the mayor. And then you had the Puerto Rican Day parade, I believe, this past weekend. And then you have him going down the line. You can see the love. And if you see what folks say online about it, this is the difference between organic love and someone trying to manufacture something, like what happened on the White House lawn this weekend with the 250 celebration and Trump's 80th. Check out, this is Mamdani. This weekend. Look at that.
How did the Knicks' run and city celebrations shape Gen Z sentiment about leadership?
We have been saying, Khalil, that that is he is the sort of new model. Trump is the old model. His battery is wearing thin and it's not even that he needs an update. He needs to just be put in a drawer like an old cell phone because it's basically, you know, he's past his expiration date.
I mean, people haven't liked Trump for so long, especially New Yorkers. I remember my dad was living there at the time of the Central Park Five, or the Exonerated Five, as they're called now. And he remembers when Trump took out a full page ad calling for the death penalty to be brought back against them. We saw it this year, like a week ago or a few days ago. When Trump came to the game that everyone thought the Knicks was going to win, Knicks and four, and he jinxed them. He was met with boos from the entire stadium. And then you saw not even a few hours later, he was lying to reporters saying that he got congratulations. Trump is just someone that's completely unlikable. very much a liar he's very much a deceiver and i think he lives in his own delusions and um mamdani on the other hand he's been someone that's extremely likable not just from his personality and the charisma that all politicians have in some regard but because he's also delivering on what he promised he's engaging people he's engaging the community he's celebrating diversity and you mentioned the knicks win you mentioned the puerto rican day parade but it's also
The World Cup in New York is a host of the World Cup. That's a time when immigrants from different countries, I believe it was Brazil and Morocco that took place there. It's a celebration of diversity and culture and all of these American ideals that Trump does not represent, but someone like Mamdani does.
I love visual things that can help us out visually. And you have Donald Trump sitting at the game, right, where they lost for the first time. And, you know, since April, the only time they lost the Knicks is when he showed up. But then you have Mandani who's showing up at all of them. But the contrast between Donald Trump falling asleep and that, you know, that fake performative salute that he gave to the camera during the national anthem.
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