DAVID MARCUS: Trump and Mamdani showed us all how to act at Thanksgiving

It's a speech that volition resound crossed America adjacent week arsenic millions question to beryllium with their families for Thanksgiving: "You cognize your dada is simply a fascist, right?" to which mightiness beryllium responded, "Okay, but find thing other to speech about. Affordability, or, I don’t know, you some emotion New York City."

For astir an hr connected Friday, President Donald Trump and mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani, who person spent months slinging mud and calling each different names, exhibited cleanable Thanksgiving meal decorum, and possibly we tin each larn from it.

Going into the meeting, expectations ran precocious that tempers mightiness flare. Would we spot a repetition of the aggravated confab Trump had with Vlodymyr Zalenskyy months ago, afloat of fiery recriminations? But it turns out, that was ne'er truly successful the cards.

It was to neither man’s vantage to origin a country connected Friday, overmuch little to beryllium judged the origin of specified a scene. So they conscionable smiled and pleasantly passed the rhetorical stuffing.

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That didn’t halt the reporters gathered, similar troublemaking teenagers, from trying to prime fights betwixt Trump and Mamdani. It went thing like, "Hey Dad, Mr. Green Energy implicit present flew alternatively of taking the train."

But Trump wouldn’t instrumentality the bait. On astatine slightest 7 occasions, including that one, helium came to Mamdani’s aid, refusing to telephone him a jihadist, saying he’d beryllium comfy surviving successful Gotham nether Mamdani, and adjacent suggesting the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young socialist mightiness alteration successful bureau arsenic helium himself has.

The astir telling infinitesimal came erstwhile Mamdani was pressed connected whether helium inactive believes that Trump is simply a fascist. Mamdani froze successful the headlights, until Trump jumped successful and said, "Just accidental yes," adding that it was easier than explaining it.

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Trump was acknowledging that successful the hardball of politics, radical propulsion names astatine each other, but also, that erstwhile the votes are counted, the winners person to enactment together, nary substance if they slung epithets similar fascist and communist rather freely.

The gathering was besides a reminder that dissimilar Mamdani, Trump is not an ideologue. He has been a Democrat, successful the Reform Party, and the person of the GOP. For Trump, the question is whether a argumentation works, not if Edmund Burke oregon William F. Buckley would o.k. of it.

Zany Zohran is simply a sworn socialist, but Trump cannot afloat beryllium claimed by immoderate of the wings of the modern blimpish movement, each of which curry favour from him.

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For Mamdini’s part, helium played the son-in-law precise well, tons of smiling, lasting deferentially alongside Trump, helium was calm and reserved, astir similar the 20-something cousins who abruptly determine to "take a walk," a fractional hr earlier dinner.

There volition beryllium small to nary backlash against Mamdani connected the near for "humanizing" Trump during his visit, due to the fact that his acolytes cognize helium was conscionable playing the game, similar erstwhile erstwhile President Barack Obama pretended to reason cheery matrimony based connected his "deeply held" Christian beliefs.

But that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a humanizing infinitesimal for Trump, astatine slightest for those who don’t already enactment his representation connected dart boards. By foregoing Archie Bunker and channeling Mike Brady, Trump pulled disconnected a "President Knows Best" vacation special.

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While this truce betwixt the soon-to-be hizzoner and the commander-in-chief whitethorn not past overmuch longer than Christmas oregon New Year's -- Trump could inactive person ICE descend upon Gotham, Mamdani could inactive effort to apprehension overseas dignitaries -- for now, the pleasantries are a invited respite.

"My girl joined a communist, tin you judge that, a communist?" you tin astir perceive Trump saying of his beloved New York City aft dinner, unbuckling his loop successful his aureate recliner. "But that’s okay, we similar Zohran."

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Perhaps, arsenic we participate the play of Advent adjacent week, this is precisely what Americans needed to see: 2 men who could not beryllium much polar opposites successful the governmental imaginativeness of their nation, nevertheless treating each different with dignity and respect.

And somewhere, I could astir consciousness First Lady Melania Trump, mirroring truthful galore mothers and grandmothers this Turkey Day, whispering "Thank God," erstwhile the fireworks ne'er started, and the household made bully each the mode done the pumpkin pie.