Mainstream Weekly[This article was written before the unexpected meeting between New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani & the US President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday Nov 21, 2025]
It is no coincidence that Donald Trump poured further scorn on Zohran Mamdani after he won the New York mayoral election, and just a week later warmly embraced former Syrian jihadist Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, dubbed a terrorist by Washington not too long ago.
Both Mamdani and al-Sharaa are Muslims; that is where their similarity ends. If one were to go by the treatment the two-faced US President meted out, Mamdani may be an anarchist and al-Sharaa a long-time adherent of democratic politics.