The much-hyped showdown between Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump was astonishing - but not for any of the reasons people expected

Donald Trump was branded a fascist to his face by the Mayor-elect of New York - and he sat there and smiled. Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist raised many eyebrows by confirming yesterday he planned to visit the White House for an audience with Trump.

The pair met behind closed doors, but invited the media into the Oval Office for an extraordinary 'spray' with the media, taking questions from reporters. The pair struck a cordial tone, far from the bitter confrontation between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in February that many feared would be repeated. And there was little sign of the inflammatory rhetoric Trump and his allies have de

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