After ALL the noise and trash talking?
A cordial meeting of two politicians that have Queens, NYC backgrounds….
The President and the incoming Mayor of the City of New York
President Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, put on a remarkable display of bonhomie in the Oval Office on Friday, with Mr. Trump showering praise on the democratic socialist and promising to help him succeed.
Just weeks ago, Mr. Trump was warning New York voters that electing Mr. Mamdani would amount to an existential threat to the nation’s largest city.
“I expect to be helping him, not hurting him — a big help,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “I think this mayor can do some things that are going to be really great.”
For his part, Mr. Mamdani, who had vowed on the campaign trail to stand up to the president, called their meeting “productive” and said that he looked forward to working with Mr. Trump to improve life in New York.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Mamdani, who had lobbed labels like “communist” and “despot” at each other during a mayoral campaign filled with vitriol, nodded approvingly as each spoke and struck an optimistic tone with reporters. But they also sidestepped questions that might have highlighted their most polarizing positions.
“What I really appreciate about the president is the meeting that we had focused not on places of disagreement, which there are many, and also focused on the shared purpose that we have in serving New Yorkers,” Mr. Mamdani said.
For Mr. Trump, the public rapprochement was an opportunity to align himself with a charismatic young politician who has tapped into many of the same economic concerns that have animated the president’s base. It also comes after Democrats seized on the issue of affordability, which powered them to electoral victories this month. Since then, Mr. Trump and his allies have sought to frame the G.O.P. as the party addressing high costs.
For Mr. Mamdani, the high-stakes trip to the White House, which has bedeviled multiple foreign leaders, could be hugely consequential for the nation’s largest city, as could his relationship with the president in the coming months. Many New Yorkers have worried that Mr. Trump would send the National Guard into the city shortly after Mr. Mamdani takes office on Jan. 1 or that the president would try to punish the city in other ways. Mr. Mamdani seemed to have defused that threat — for now.
“The better he does, the happier I am,” Mr. Trump said on Friday.
The two leaders met for roughly 45 minutes, and Mr. Mamdani also received a tour of the West Wing. It included a visit to the Cabinet Room, where he and Mr. Trump posed in front of a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and to the newly installed “Presidential Walk of Fame” on the West Colonnade.
Aides to the president said Mr. Trump was committed to having a successful meeting with Mr. Mamdani, speaking approvingly of him in private over the past two days, according to people who spoke with him.
The president took steps to ensure the meeting was successful….
Note….
Trump was NOT bombastic and Mamdani was accommodating ….
Hopefully this IS good news fro the ‘Big Apple’….
Could it delay or cancel the annouced ICE Op in the city?
image…PBS
Even with his dementia Trump never bought into the foolish notion that the business and cultural elites of NYC were all going to relocate to red states.
Of course you had politicians like the dipshit state senator from my hometown who said Missourah is open to all disgruntled NYC bigwigs who want to give up Broadway for Branson.
Trumps brain may be melting but he knew that was stupid.