(COMBO) This operation of pictures created connected November 19, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One connected October 24, 2025 (L) and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani successful New York City, connected November 12, 2025.
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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani connected Friday arrived astatine the White House to conscionable with President Donald Trump for a treatment connected affordability that could transportation precocious stakes for some men.
The Oval Office gathering was requested by Mamdani, the 34-year-old antiauthoritarian socialist whose stunning triumph successful the mayoral contention implicit erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has enactment him astatine the halfway of American politics.
"I volition enactment with anyone to marque beingness much affordable for the much than eight-and-a-half cardinal radical who telephone the metropolis home," Mamdani said Thursday.
Trump has repeatedly accused Mamdani of being a communist — a statement rejected by the mayor-elect. Before the mayoral election, Trump had threatened to withhold national backing for New York City if Mamdani won.
That menace has not yet been taken disconnected the table. Asked connected Thursday if determination was immoderate accidental Mamdani could person Trump not to chopped NYC off, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said, "We'll spot however the gathering goes tomorrow."
Trump whitethorn besides request the gathering to spell well. The president's approval ratings person fallen precipitously successful galore polls, with respondents consistently pointing to the precocious outgo of surviving arsenic a main concern.
Mamdani and different Democrats who won a bevy of elections this period had focused relentlessly connected the contented of affordability — a connection that Trump has chafed at, portion insisting that prices are broadly down already.
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