News of President Trump’s surprisingly amiable meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani traveled fast, leaving at least one Mamdani voter gobsmacked by the President’s abrupt change of tone.

“[During the election, Trump] called him a communist and said New York City was going to go down the drain,” said director Spike Lee at a Torino Film Festival press conference. “I mean, the President said he was going to cut off federal funding. So from the things that were said to this quick turnaround… I’m puzzled.”

“We shall see what we shall see,” Lee continued, still bemused by the sudden Oval Office bromance. “When you go back and see what the President said about him, and what would happen to New York City if [Mamdani] won, it just seems…,” he trailed off. “It seems like they

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