What is happening?
In a particularly notable moment, the president said that “some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have.” At another point, he added that “we agree on a lot more than I would have thought. I want him to do a great job, and we’ll help him do a great job.”
Mamdani is a super like-able and successful guy. Trump always wants to be attached to successful people no matter who they are. Honestly, if Dems had faux praised him in 2017 with celebrity endorsements, they could have convinced Trump to sign any legislation they wanted.
This was literally what Obama advised Theresa May and Angela Merkel to do, in an attempt to establish guardrails.