Greene explained her decision in a scathing 10-minute social media video<\/a> in which she defended her record of support for Trump and far-right priorities, like the crackdown on immigration, the defeat of green energy policies and anti-trans initiatives, but said she did not want her district \u201cto have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary\u201d against her by a Trump-backed candidate.<\/p>\n She went on to argue that she had broken with Trump over just a few issues, including the issuing of H-1B visas to skilled foreign workers, a ban on AI regulation, \u201c50 year mortgages scams\u201d, involvement in foreign wars and the release of files related to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender Trump socialized with for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n \u201cStanding up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n \u201cLoyalty should be a two way street,\u201d she said. \u201cAmerican First should mean America First and only Americans First, with no other foreign countries ever being attached to America First in our halls of government.\u201d Greene has been an outspoken opponent of Israeli\u2019s war on Gaza, with US support, calling it \u201ca genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can\u2019t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n She then hinted at a future role in politics, amid widespread speculation that she could be positioning herself to run for the 2028 Republican nomination.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart\u201d Greene said, and understand that \u201ccommon Americans, The People, possess the real power over Washington, then I\u2019ll be here by their side to rebuild it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUntil then, I\u2019m going back to the people I love, to live life to the fullest as I always have, and look forward to a new path ahead. I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n The Georgia congresswoman has recently claimed that she was simply misled by the internet when she embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and wrote on Facebook in 2018 that wildfires in California had been started by lasers from \u201cspace solar generators\u201d controlled by \u201cRothschild Inc, international investment banking firm\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a021.16 EST<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n Alito pauses lower court order that new Texas congressional maps cannot be used for 2026 elections<\/p>\n Justice Samuel Alito of the US supreme court temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas\u2019 2026 congressional redistricting plan likely discriminates on the basis of race.<\/p>\n Alito\u2019s order<\/a> will remain in place until Monday at 5pm while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n The court\u2019s conservative majority has blocked similar lower court rulings because they have come too close to elections.<\/p>\n Alito handles emergency appeals from Texas.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a021.10 EST<\/p>\n Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is resigning from office in January<\/p>\n Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Maga Republican congresswoman who was denounced by Donald Trump over her support for the release of the Epstein files, announced<\/a> on Friday that she is resigning from office, effective in January.<\/p>\n Greene explained her decision in a scathing 10-minute social media video<\/a> in which she defended her record of support for Trump and far-right priorities, like the crackdown on immigration, the defeat of green energy policies and anti-trans initiatives, but said she did not want her district \u201cto have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary\u201d against her by a Trump-backed candidate.<\/p>\n She went on to argue that she had broken with Trump over just a few issues, including the issuing of H-1B visas to skilled foreign workers, a ban on AI regulation, \u201c50 year mortgages scams\u201d, involvement in foreign wars and the release of files related to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender Trump socialized with for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n \u201cStanding up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n \u201cLoyalty should be a two way street,\u201d she said. \u201cAmerican First should mean America First and only Americans First, with no other foreign countries ever being attached to America First in our halls of government.\u201d Greene has been an outspoken opponent of Israeli\u2019s war on Gaza, with US support, calling it \u201ca genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can\u2019t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n She then hinted at a future role in politics, amid widespread speculation that she could be positioning herself to run for the 2028 Republican nomination.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart\u201d Greene said, and understand that \u201ccommon Americans, The People, possess the real power over Washington, then I\u2019ll be here by their side to rebuild it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUntil then, I\u2019m going back to the people I love, to live life to the fullest as I always have, and look forward to a new path ahead. I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n The Georgia congresswoman has recently claimed that she was simply misled by the internet when she embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and wrote on Facebook in 2018 that wildfires in California had been started by lasers from \u201cspace solar generators\u201d controlled by \u201cRothschild Inc, international investment banking firm\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a021.16 EST<\/p>\n The armies of lefty America and of Maga were assembled ready to watch their champions do battle. After all, Donald Trump<\/a> had called Zohran Mamdani<\/a> a \u201c100% Communist Lunatic\u201d and \u201ctotal nut job\u201d. The incoming democratic socialist New York mayor in turn had called the Republican US president a \u201cdespot\u201d and \u201cfascist\u201d.<\/p>\n But anyone expecting to see fists fly and shirts torn in the Oval Office was in for a disappointment. Trump, 79, and 34-year-old Mamdani actually got on rather well<\/a>. In fact beautifully, bewilderingly, bizarrely well. Instead of Batman v Superman, this was Toy Story besties Woody and Buzz Lightyear.<\/p>\n Perhaps the old left v right binaries really are dead. This was a case of game recognising game \u2013 of Queens recognising Queens. Trump is now on much better terms with Zohran Mamdani than Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>, his fellow Republican. Mamdani got a warmer reception from Trump than from the leaders of his own party \u2013 a world turned upside down.<\/p>\n The buddy movie began with Trump sitting behind the Resolute Desk and Mamdani standing to his side, a statuette of George Washington behind him. \u201cWe have one thing in common \u2013 we want this city of ours that we love to do very well,\u201d the president said, referring to New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI think you\u2019re going to have hopefully a really great mayor. The better he does \u2013 the happier I am. I will say there\u2019s no difference in party, there\u2019s no difference in anything, and we\u2019re going to be helping him to make everybody\u2019s dream come true, having a strong and very safe New York.\u201d<\/p>\n That great thud was the sound of White House reporters\u2019 jaws hitting the floor of the Oval Office. That shredding noise was the sound of Republican strategists destroying their playbook to demonise Mamdani as the Marxist face of the Democrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.36 EST<\/p>\n Trump posts photos of himself with Mamdani, calls visit ‘a Great Honor’<\/p>\n Three weeks ago, Donald Trump posted<\/a> on his social network 20 photographs of his marble makeover of the bathroom in the Lincoln Bedroom. A few days later, his party was heavily defeated in elections as voters complained that he was more focused on redecorating the White House than bringing down the cost of living.<\/p>\n Today, after claiming that he is focused on affordability at a friendly meeting with the mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, the president shared photographs of himself, grinning and giving a thumb-up sign<\/a>, with Mamdani in the White House.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s caption for the first of the photos was a sharp departure from his previous rhetoric about Mamdani being a \u201ccommunist lunatic\u201d. It was, Trump wrote<\/a> on his social media platform, \u201ca Great Honor meeting Zohran Mamdani, the new Mayor of New York City!\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a021.05 EST<\/p>\n The highly anticipated Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump<\/a> and Zohran Mamdani<\/a> \u2013 the mayor-elect of New York City, the US president\u2019s beloved home town \u2013 was hardly the combustible t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate many had predicted. For the moment at least, the two New Yorkers appeared relaxed, smiling and cautiously optimistic about the work they might accomplish together.<\/p>\n Neither revived their hot campaign trail rhetoric, in which they cast each other as diametrically opposed political adversaries. Trump had labeled Mamdani a \u201c100% communist lunatic<\/a>\u201d and urged voters to back his opponent, the former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. In turn, Mamdani assailed Trump as a \u201cdespot\u201d and pledged to be the president\u2019s \u201cworst nightmare<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.48 EST<\/p>\n Trump’s praise for Mamdani upends Republican talking points, explodes heads across political spectrum<\/p>\n Republicans and pro-Trump media outlets were gravely disappointed by the lack of fireworks at Friday\u2019s Oval Office meeting between New York\u2019s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and Queens native Donald Trump, who had attacked<\/a> the democratic socialist as \u201ca 100% Communist lunatic\u201d, before showering him with praise at the meeting Mamdani requested.<\/p>\n In the hours before the meeting, the encounter was described by Fox News as Trump\u2019s \u201cshowdown with socialism\u201d and equated to a prize fight<\/a> and billed as \u201cthe Battle of the Ages: capitalism versus communism\u201d on pillow salesman Mike Lindell\u2019s TV outlet.<\/p>\n As Mamdani made his way to Washington on Friday morning, Rick Scott, a Republican senator from Florida, shared the selfie he posted from his flight with the ominous caption<\/a>: \u201cHere\u2019s the new face of the Democrat party \u2014 a literal communist \u2014 on his way to the White House to be schooled by President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n In the end, the meeting went so well for Mamdani that the Democratic Socialists of America mocked the Fox \u201cshowdown\u201d graphic in a post<\/a> that said simply: \u201cSocialism won! Join DSA\u201d.<\/p>\n Allow content provided by a third party?<\/p>\n This article includes content hosted on embed.bsky.app. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click ‘Allow and continue’.<\/p>\n In the immediate aftermath of the meeting, a Fox Business anchor David Asman was stunned, saying<\/a>: \u201cJust one word \u2013 wow.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCommie Mamdani as the president has [been] referring to his guest in the Oval Office there for the past several months, uh, looked like best friends with president Trump now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n On Friday morning a host on the slavishly pro-Trump outlet Newsmax, Todd Starnes, posted<\/a> a fantasy of how rough the meeting would be for Mamdani. \u201cSCENARIO: Mamdani enters the Oval Office today only to be greeted by Tom Homan who then personally escorts the Communist back to Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n By Friday afternoon, Starnes was puzzled by the very different reality: \u201cI thought Mamdani was supposed to be a fascist dictator?\u201d he asked<\/a>. \u201cWhat the heck is going on at the White House?\u201d<\/p>\n As Aaron Fritschner, an aide for Democratic congressman, Don Beyer of Virginia, pointed out: \u201cRepublicans spent the whole day in the House making everyone re-vote on the \u2018horrors of socialism\u2019 resolution specifically over Mamdani, it\u2019s literally the only thing we did today, and hours later Trump says \u2018He has the same ideas I have.\u2019 It\u2019s just beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n The fact that Mamdani seemed to charm Trump into submission baffled even some of his supporters. Rashida Tlaib, the Michigan congresswoman who is a fellow democratic socialist and DSA member, shared<\/a> video of Trump telling Mamdani it is fine to call him a fascist with the words: \u201cWhat the heck just happened?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.41 EST<\/p>\n Mamdani shares clip of Trump nodding as he said \u2018working people were left behind\u2019 in New York<\/p>\n Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, just posted video<\/a> of Donald Trump nodding in agreement with him as he told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday that, during his campaign, \u201cwhat we found, time and again, is that working people were left behind in the politics of our city, and what we\u2019re looking to do is put those people right back at the heart of our politics, so that we don\u2019t have a situation where we\u2019re in the wealthiest city in the history of the world, and yet one in five can\u2019t even afford $2.90 for a Metro card\u201d.<\/p>\n Mamdani was responding to a question from a correspondent for the far-right outlet Newsmax who had asked him if he accepted that, because \u201cDemocrats have run New York City for a long time \u2026 do you see Democrat policy specifically as being a problem?\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani, who ran partly as a critic of the Democratic establishment, began his reply by saying: \u201cLook, I think that there are many things in our city where we have to own the responsibility of it, things that existed long before the president was the president, and those are also part of the message of our campaign, was to take on a broken politics of the past. And I ran against a number of candidates who represented different versions of that past.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.45 EST<\/p>\n Mamdani and Trump bond over FDR, New Deal president attacked as a socialist by Republicans<\/p>\n At one point during the exchange with reporters in the Oval Office, Zohran Mamdani took a moment to mention that he appreciated seeing a painting<\/a> of another New York president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, among the portraits in Donald Trump\u2019s White House.<\/p>\n \u201cOne thing I also appreciated is in our meeting to appreciate a portrait of FDR, and the incredible work that was done with the New Deal, and also in thinking about what it can look like when the federal government and New York City government work together to deliver affordability, it can be transformative,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n Trump then took credit for selecting the \u201cgreat portrait of FDR\u201d hanging in the cabinet room he re-decorated. \u201cWhen the mayor saw that portrait, he said, \u2018Sir, do you mind if I have a picture taken by that? It\u2019s an amazing portrait.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.42 EST<\/p>\n Joseph Gedeon<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/a> and Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, the New York City<\/a> mayor-elect, walked out of their meeting on Friday afternoon with an unlikely alliance, agreeing to work together on housing, food prices and cost-of-living concerns that have defined both their political appeals to working-class voters.<\/p>\n \u201cWe agreed a lot more than I would have thought,\u201d Trump said in the Oval Office, sometimes jumping in to shield Mamdani from aggressive questioning from the press.<\/p>\n The sit-down \u2013 which many had anticipated would be contentious, given months of intense rhetoric in which Trump branded Mamdani a \u201ccommunist lunatic\u201d \u2013 instead produced camaraderie, warm words and concrete pledges of cooperation between the Republican president and the self-described democratic socialist who secured a commanding electoral victory earlier at the beginning of November with over 50% of the vote.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel very confident that he can do a very good job,\u201d Trump said after the meeting, offering praise for his ideological opposite. \u201cThe better he does, the happier I am. I will say there\u2019s no difference in party. There\u2019s no difference in anything, and we\u2019re going to be helping him to make everybody\u2019s dream come true, having a strong and very safe New York<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Standing next to Trump, Mamdani describes his conversations with Trump voters in Queens<\/p>\n During their Oval Office exchange with reporters, which was staged in a familiar fashion for this White House, with Donald Trump seated behind his desk and his guest forced to stand, Zohran Mamdani referred to conversations he had, last November, with Queens residents who voted for Trump in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n Mamdani even said that he spoke with a pharmacist who told him that Trump\u2019s father, Fred, had been a customer.<\/p>\n Some of those conversations, days after the election, were recorded and featured in a social media video<\/a> posted on Mamdani\u2019s YouTube channel before he launched his mayoral campaign. In the video, voters told Mamdani that Trump\u2019s promise to lower the cost of living was a major factor in their decision. He told them that he planned to run for mayor on a platform of freezing rents, making buses free and making universal child care a reality.<\/p>\n Here is that November 2024 video:<\/p>\n Zohran Mamdani\u2019s conversations with Trump voters in November 2024.Share<\/a><\/p>\n Several observers of the meeting between Trump and Mamdani pointed out on social media that, by embracing the popular young mayor-elect instead of confronting him, Donald Trump<\/a> seemed to upend well-laid Republican plans to make the democratic socialist the face of the Democratic party, as strategy to cast Democrats as extremists.<\/p>\n John DeLillo, a writer, posted<\/a> a satirical version of the disconnect on social media with this imaginary dialogue between the House speaker, Mike Johnson, and the president:<\/p>\n mike johnson: we are going to make zohran mamdani the face of the democratic party<\/p>\n donald trump: and what a beautiful face it is! look at that smile! we love zohran mamdani, don\u2019t we folks<\/p>\n Share<\/a>‘Pretty sure Zohran just charmed Donald Trump into agreeing that he\u2019s a fascist’<\/p>\n A close ally of New York\u2019s mayor-elect, the city comptroller Brad Lander, responded to Donald Trump telling Zohran Mamdani it is fine to call him a fascist by posting<\/a> on social media: \u201cPretty sure Zohran just charmed Donald Trump into agreeing that he\u2019s a fascist.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.43 EST<\/p>\n Key moments from cordial Trump-Mamdani Oval Office news conference<\/p>\n The surprisingly cordial Oval Office meeting between Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist mayor-elect of New York City, and Donald Trump, the Queens native who tried and failed to keep him from being elected, just concluded.<\/p>\n Despite the best efforts of a slate of correspondents from pro-Trump outlets selected by the White House to ask the pair questions, Trump and Mamdani refused repeated attempts to goad the two men into conflict.<\/p>\n Here are some of the key moments:<\/p>\n Mamdani said that his meeting with the president was \u201cproductive\u201d and \u201cfocused on the place of shared admiration and love \u2013 which is New York City and the need to deliver affordability to New Yorkers\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump repeatedly stepped in to defend Mamdani from hostile questioning from outlets like the New York Post and Fox News, When Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressed Mamdani about whether he considers Trump to be a \u201cfascist\u201d, the president offered the mayor-elect an unusual life raft. \u201cThat\u2019s OK,\u201d Trump said while tapping Mamdani\u2019s arm. \u201cYou can just say it, it\u2019s easier than explaining it.\u201d<\/p>\n When the same Fox correspondent tried to frame Mamdani as a hypocrite for flying to the meeting from New York instead of taking a train, which is better for the environment, Trump said \u201cI\u2019ll stick up for you\u201d and pointed out that it is much faster to fly and the mayor-elect is busy.<\/p>\n When asked by a reporter whether he would live in New York under Mamdani\u2019s leadership, Trump said \u201cabsolutely\u201d. \u201cWe agree on a lot more than I would have thought,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI want him to do a great job, and we\u2019ll help them do a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n For his part, Mamdani was relentlessly focused on the issue of making New York a more fair and affordable place to live, refusing to be knocked off course even by questions from the Pizzagate conspiracist Jack Posobiec who falsely accused Mamdani of planning to tax white New Yorkers more than New Yorkers of color.<\/p>\n Trump wished Mamdani success in running the city he called home: \u201cI think he wants to make it greater than ever before, and if he can, we\u2019ll be out there cheering.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump stressed that he admired Mamdani\u2019s political campaign and distanced himself from how own previously vitriolic denunciations of the democratic socialist as a communist. \u201cI think he\u2019s different, and that can be in a very positive way\u201d, Trump said. \u201cHe has a chance to do something really great for New York … we\u2019re going to be helping him\u201d.<\/p>\n Asked by a reporter if he agrees with his Republican ally Elise Stefanik\u2019s characterization of Mamdani as a \u201cjihadist\u201d, Trump dismisses that as campaign rhetoric and says: \u201cI met with a man who\u2019s a very rational person\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump tried hard to attach himself to Mamdani\u2019s focus on affordability. \u201cI congratulated him, and we talked about some things in very strong common like housing and getting housing built, and food and prices,\u201d Trump said. While the president has insisted for months that prices have gone down during his administration, a false claim that is contradicted by government data, his sagging poll numbers make it plain that the public is not buying this big lie. Having previously said that he didn\u2019t want to hear the word \u201caffordability\u201d again, casting is as \u201ca Democratic hoax\u201d, Trump spent much of the appearance with Mamdani stressing that this is one of their shared concerns.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.01 EST<\/p>\n Trump dismisses his ally’s characterization of Mamdani as ‘a jihadist’ as campaign rhetoric<\/p>\n Asked by a reporter if he agrees with his Republican ally Elise Stefanik\u2019s characterization of Mamdani as a \u201cjihadist\u201d, Trump dismisses that as campaign rhetoric and says: \u201cNo, I don\u2019t\u2026 I met with a man who\u2019s a very rational person\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.16 EST<\/p>\n![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/David_Smith.png\")
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