New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) It was an unexpected Friday “bromance” moment between US President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani, where many imagined a kapow situation like the one with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier this year.

In Oval office, across the Resolute Desk sat the President — a populist conservative standard-bearer who has spent months branding Mamdani a “communist lunatic”.

And there stood the Mayor-elect – a democratic socialist, who has previously labeled Trump a “fascist” and a “despot”. It was widely apprehended to be a collision between two diametrically opposed ideologies.

Some expected a frostiness bordering on hostility, a photo-op to be defined by grimaces and stiff body language. Instead, the world witnessed what CNN called “a

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