I dreamed that Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Gov. Maura Healey met with President Donald Trump on the White Home.
Within the dream, Trump is seated on the Resolute desk within the Oval Workplace whereas Wu and Healey are smiling and standing on both aspect of him.
Trump is holding a pen and signing a pair of paperwork. One is an order sending Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Boston to take care of the infinite Mass and Cass drug horror present, together with extra housing, an issue that no person appears in a position to remedy, together with Wu.
The opposite doc Trump indicators is an govt order funding two new Cape Cod bridges together with billions in help for the development of extra inexpensive housing that Healey is at all times speaking about.
“I do know you two hate me,” Trump says, “however I don’t hate you. And I like the folks of Boston and Massachusetts.”
“We thanks anyway,” the 2 sing out in unison.
Then I wakened and realized it was all a dream. The 2 Trump-hating progressive Democrat political leaders didn’t meet with Trump or say something good about him. They by no means do.
And they didn’t get two new bridges, or extra inexpensive housing, or a cleaned-up Mass and Cass. It was all a fantasy. The one factor they’ll get are fewer federal funds and extra ICE brokers.
The fact is that it was two different Trump hating — or former Trump hating — progressive political leaders who did meet with Trump and who’re getting, or have gotten, wanted federal assist to assist the folks they symbolize.
They aren’t from Massachusetts, they’re from New York Metropolis and Michigan.
One among them is outgoing, term-limited Michigan progressive Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — or “Huge Gretch” — as Michigan residents name her.
Whitmer, a pointy Trump critic, was nonetheless in a position to meet and work with Trump to profit Michigan. In her ultimate handle to the Legislature final week, she listed all the roles that had been created with the assistance of Trump, together with stationing a brand new jet fighter mission on the state’s Nationwide Guard Air Base.
“In all probability not on the bingo card,” she mentioned, “however I need to thank President Trump for his work on this.” Then, concluding her speech, she mentioned, “Huge Gretch, out,” and blew a kiss to the group.
It was stunning that socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani didn’t blow a kiss to Trump following his shock assembly with the president on the White Home final week.
It was Mamdani’s second assembly with Trump, a person he recurrently referred to as a fascist throughout his mayoral marketing campaign. Trump, in flip, referred to as Mamdani “a communist lunatic.”
Whereas the pair have little in widespread in that Republican Trump, 79, is a small authorities, free market capitalist and Mamdani, 35, is a giant authorities, unfold the wealth socialist — each are New Yorkers.
Trump loves town he helped construct whereas Mamdani is making an attempt to get town to like him.
Trump loves town a lot that on the assembly he appeared with favor on Mamdani’s billion-dollar proposal to construct 12,000 new housing items within the metropolis, which might be the largest federal housing funding in New York in 50 years.
Mamdani, who runs a sanctuary metropolis, even acquired Trump to launch from ICE custody a Columbia College pupil from Azerbaijan who had been detained underneath questionable circumstances.
Mamdani, who smiles quite a bit, had quite a bit to smile about as he posted an image of the assembly with Trump
He mentioned, “I had a productive assembly with President Trump. I’m wanting ahead to constructing extra housing in New York.”
Right here is the query: How is it that Mamdani, a novice politician who vilified Trump, can meet and work with him to assist the folks he represents whereas veteran political leaders like Healey and Wu, who additionally vilified him, can’t?
Mamdani meets with Trump and New York will get housing; Massachusetts refuses to fulfill with Trump and will get nothing.
The reply is {that a} assembly is feasible. Trump meets with everyone. All it’s a must to do is ask.
However Healey and Wu lack the political savvy, or the braveness, to interrupt from the lunatic left and construct an lodging with Trump to assist their metropolis and their state.
Get up.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas will be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
