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Mr Zohran Mamdani (left), mayor-elect of New York City, and US President Donald Trump at the Oval Office in Washington, on Nov 21.

Mr Zohran Mamdani (left), mayor-elect of New York City, and US President Donald Trump at the Oval Office in Washington, on Nov 21.

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Nathan Taylor Pemberton

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WASHINGTON - It was a break-the-internet moment if there ever was one. Unpredictable, at times perplexing and rich, with the kinds of surreal moments social media feeds on.

After the

Nov 21

meeting

between President Donald Trump and Mr Zohran Mamdani,

the mayor-elect of New York

, certain corners of the internet did, in fact, appear to be broken – or at least temporarily off-kilter – including the sprawling online ecosystem that has emerged from the Make America Great Again movement.

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