I NY: Queens recognises Queens as Trump gives Mamdani warm reception

No fists, no fire - the president and the mayor-elect met in Washington, and things went bewilderingly, bizarrely well

The armies of lefty America and of Maga were assembled ready to watch their champions do battle. After all, Donald Trump had called Zohran Mamdani a 100% Communist Lunatic" and total nut job." The incoming democratic socialist New York mayor in turn had called the Republican US president a despot" and fascist".

But anyone expecting to see fists fly and shirts torn in the Oval Office was in for a disappointment. Trump, 79, and 34-year-old Mamdani actually got on rather well. In fact beautifully, bewilderingly, bizarrely well. Instead of Batman v Superman, this was Toy Story besties Woody and Buzz Lightyear.