Boys will be boys

Friday’s White House press conference was expected to be a wild, bruising affair.
The script was simple: President Donald Trump (a 79-years-old ruffian, undisputed champion of take-no-prisoners political theater) would tutor greenhorn Zorhan Mamdani (at 34 two generations his junior, a silver spoon-fed political novice — an immigrant!). After reading the riot act, president would put the mayor-elect in his place.
But Trump and Mamdani ignored the script and improvised instead.
Downplaying but not denying their differences (Trump’s called Mamdani a Communist, Mamdani’s called Trump a fascist), both men surprisingly appeared to relish an ability to get along (if not a genuine affection).