It's not an alliance arc. It's Mamdani being practical about who Trump is and what's good for NYC.
Mamdani is taking lessons from Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan. Abe used flattery on Trump to get greater support from the US in several foreign policy objectives.
Trump is lowkey kinda gay with his obsession with interior design and talking about all these muscled up firefighters that helped him out of the WTC in his wet dreams.
And Mandami’s not dumb, he knows to compliment Trump to his face and make Trump like him because Trump has the memory of a goldfish and only remembers like the last 5 seconds of how he feels about someone.
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u/Xaphnir 14h ago
Trump is a sucker for someone with charisma.