Meanwhile, my big boy brain just realized something incredibly funny about this:
Trump was being extra gushy with Mandami, not because they were secretly best buddies, not because he actually supported socialism or fascism, but he was actually doing his usual trolling to get Mandami's voters to side against all of this. Just like the Epstein list and the Tylenol thing. He's playing infinity-dimensional chess while we're still playing with sticks.