President Donald Trump waits for the arrival of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

Whenever Donald Trump is in political trouble, he seeks a fight and a foil.

He will get both on Friday after one of the most misjudged weeks of his two presidencies, after his own choices eroded his political authority over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal .

Trump is embroiled in a bitter new feud with Democrats over national security, provocative rhetoric and presidential power that he deliberately turned nuclear . And at a White House meeting Friday, he’ll go head-to-head with the next mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani , a democratic socialist he’s planning to brand as the unacceptable “communist” fa

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