The strangest love story in American politics didn’t unfold in Brooklyn or Queens. It unfolded in the Oval Office, under the watchful gaze of oil paintings, busts of dead presidents and a press corps still processing what they were seeing: Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani acting like two men who had always been fond of each other, rather than two men who spent the year trying to verbally set each other on fire. It wasn’t long ago that Trump described Mamdani as “100 per cent Communist”, “lunatic”, “nutjob”, “Jew hater”, and various other terms that suggested he believed New York was about to elect Chairman Mao with a MetroCard. Mamdani fired back by calling Trump “authoritarian”, promising to be his “worst nightmare”, and using Trump’s name as a punchline in every speech, interview an

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