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HOLMES: “Yeah. I mean, look, I‘ve heard all these hot takes on how both of them were just being diplomatic. President Trump doesn‘t feel like he has to be diplomatic. Months ago, he brought in the leader of South Africa and essentially ambushed him with videos. This is not a man who believes that he has to act a certain way in the presence of others. I can‘t speak for Mamdani, but President Trump seemed charmed by him. He seemed almost starstruck at points. There was one point when he was talking about how it was a really big deal to be the mayor of New York, and that he had at one point thought he, maybe he would run and be the mayor of New York. He said he was cheering him on. And all this talk about cutting off New York‘s funding, that seems to be in the distant past.”