Trump and Mamdani hope for positive relationship after ‘productive’ meeting

Trump praises Mamdani for ‘incredible’ triumph successful New York City mayoral predetermination and absorption connected affordability.

United States President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani person held talks successful the White House, expressing their anticipation for a productive and cordial narration contempt their past of communal criticism.

Speaking to the property aft their treatment connected Friday, Trump praised Mamdani – the Muslim person whom helium erstwhile tarred arsenic a “jihadist” and threatened to strip him of his US citizenship – for his palmy run and accent connected cost-of-living issues.

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“We’ve conscionable had a large meeting, a truly productive meeting. We person 1 happening successful common: we privation this metropolis of ours that we emotion to bash precise well,” said Trump, who grew up successful New York, adding that Mamdani had tally an “incredible race” and bushed his rivals “easily”.

“I appreciated the gathering with the president, and arsenic helium said, it was a productive gathering focused connected a spot of shared admiration and love, which is New York City,” responded Mamdani, saying helium discussed issues successful areas specified arsenic rent, utilities and groceries.

Mamdani, a antiauthoritarian socialist who embraced New York’s presumption arsenic a assemblage made up of radical from astir the satellite and offered a steadfast defence of Palestinian rights, is politically astatine likelihood with Trump, whose nativist authorities person depicted immigrants arsenic a unsafe interior menace and antecedently pushed for a ban connected Muslims entering the US.

Asked astir areas of disagreement with Trump, specified arsenic migration enforcement, Mamdani said helium hoped to enactment unneurotic towards shared goals contempt their differences.

He referred to a video helium shared successful November 2024, successful which helium discussed issues specified arsenic affordability and US engagement successful conflicts overseas with Trump voters aft the 2024 statesmanlike election. Mamdani said helium present hopes to find communal crushed connected ending US “forever wars” and bringing down the cost of living.

“I deliberation some President Trump and I are precise wide astir our positions and our views. And what I truly admit astir the president is the gathering that we had focused not connected places of disagreement, of which determination are many, and focused connected the shared intent that we person of serving New Yorkers,” said Mamdani.

“That’s thing that could alteration the lives of 8.5 cardinal radical who are presently nether a cost-of-living crisis, with 1 successful 4 radical surviving successful poverty,” helium said.

With polls showing increasing concerns implicit the authorities of the US economy, Trump has precocious spoken positively astir Mamdani’s absorption connected cost-of-living issues, contempt erstwhile acrimony.

“He said a batch of my voters really voted for him,” Trump told reporters. “And I’m good with that.”