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It's triangulation.
The plans Mamdani campaigned on are going to cost billions, and will require state and federal support to have any chance of success. He said as much himself and I imagine that's why he agreed to the meeting.
Hochul supported him verbally and now Trump has too (words are free).
From Trump's perspective, if he had done a presser where he immediately shits on Mamdani to his face, and vows to oppose him with the entire Federal apparatus, then that adds fuel for more people to potentially support Mamdani-like figures if for no other reason than opposition to Trump. It also gives Mamdani an easy target to blame if his policies ultimately fail in NYC.
In contrast, Trump comes out and says "NYC is great, it's gonna be great under his leadership, he can do it" etc. then later when things don't go so well in New York (which Trump is betting on) then it's easier for Trump to say Mamdani owns the failures.
Its the same thing as building up a debate opponent prior to the event and then it becomes easier to suggest they underperformed expectations.
You're projecting competence on Trump
Trump is strong to the weak and weak to the strong. He's surrounded with people without backbones, both his sycophants and enemies are whiney little pieces of shit
Mamdani has actual beliefs and is unapologetic. He stole massive amounts of voters away from Trump in Trump's home city. Mamdani has the kind of mandate Trump likes to pretend he has
Trump just likes Mamdani. He wants Mamdani to like him. It's that simple
seriously, Trump isnt playing 4d chess...
he doesn't know how to play regular chess
hell, he doesn't know how to play checkers
even before losing what little of his brain he had to dementia the man was dumb as shit
it's wild to me just how much damage one random television show (the apprentice) could cause, by convincing so many people trump is actually competent