How Zohran Mamdani mastered Trump's 'Art of the Deal'

President Donald Trump talks after meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Every generation has technological habits that confuse the next. Recording TV shows on a thing called a VCR. Sending free SMSes from a bootleg site. Burning CDs. Downloading wallpapers on Santa Banta. Each chore sounds arcanely archaic to the next generation.And the chances are that if you grew up in the early noughties and developed a taste for English music to fit in with anglicised Macaulayputras, you downloaded songs from illegal torrent sites before playing them on Winamp. You might have sung along to how it no longer matters, tried to memorise the lyrics to Lose Yourself (What comes after “Mom’s spaghetti”?) and definitely knew that space may be the final frontier, but it’s made in a Hollywood basement. And much like that, Zohran Mamdani feels like he was conceived in a left-liberal lab to tick all the boxes.The New York mayor is a gallimaufry of values global progressives hold dear: being anti-Israel, being anti-Hindu, being anti-rich, underperforming in SAT exams, trying to pass oneself of...