President Trump believes he has the upper hand in his budding relationship with Zohran Mamdani, according to a source who helped arrange last week’s bizarre lovefest at the Oval Office – and if you want to know why, just follow the money.

Trump on Friday startled voters and pundits alike as he lauded New York City’s mayor-elect as a “rational person,” who “has a chance to really do something great for New York.” Previously, Trump branded Mamdani a “100 percent communist lunatic,” ripping his stance on taxes, the police and Israel and his refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the Intifada.”

Likewise, Mamdani, who has referred to Trump as a “fascist” and a “despot,” gushed about the duo’s “shared purpose.”

To make sense of the surreal spectacle, it’s helpful to know that behind the

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