Snapshot · The MeidasTouch Podcast
After NYC Mayor Zoran Momdani advised residents to set thermostats to 78°F, the Trump administration deleted the identical guidance from the Department of Energy's website.
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At 35:55 · chapter starts 34:40
Meiselas presents the Momdani thermostat episode as a perfect microcosm of how the Trump regime operates. Mayor Zoran Momdani of New York City posted sensible heat-crisis advice — set thermostats to 78°F, unplug unused electronics — and Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner mocked him as 'Mayor Cum Donnie' and called the advice communist. Meiselas then reveals that the Department of Energy's own website contained virtually identical guidance, recommending thermostats between 75 and 78°F during summer days. Shortly after Momdani's post drew mockery from Fox, the Trump administration scrubbed those pages from the DOE website. [1] — Ben Meiselas "DOE thermostat guidance deleted after Momdani post: After NYC Mayor Zoran Momdani advised residents to set thermostats to 78°F, the Trump a…" 35:55 The deletion is not trivial: Meiselas uses it to make a broader epistemological argument. If the regime will delete thermostat guidance to score a political point, why would anyone trust the jobs data, the economic statistics, or any federal information? The 57,000 jobs figure — already terrible — might, he suggests, be masking a far worse reality.
When NYC Mayor Zoran Momdani tweeted that residents should set thermostats to 78°F during a heatwave, Fox News called it communist. The Trump administration then deleted the Department of Energy's own page with identical guidance — exposing how the regime shapes 'reality' to win news cycles.
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