There’s so much to say about Friday’s Trump-Mamdani Buddy Show that it’s really hard to know where to begin.

But there was a moment in this 30-minute kumbaya that stood out: the photo pose and comments about Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump’s common presidential crush: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

FDR was a role model for democratic socialist politicians like U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. He took over a country on the brink of economic disaster and instituted socialist-like policies that not only saved the national (and global) economy but still serve as the underpinnings of our modern society, almost a century later.

Roosevelt always insisted that he was not a socialist, and the leader of the Socialist Party at the time even denounced his New Deal proposals as a “pale

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