{"id":192286,"date":"2026-04-10T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192286\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:19:07","slug":"trump-gives-zohran-mamdani-three-tips-to-improve-nyc-on-his-100th-day-as-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192286\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gives Zohran Mamdani three tips to improve NYC on his 100th day as mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump offered three suggestions to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/10\/us-news\/mamdani-pushed-combined-23b-worth-of-new-nyc-taxes-in-just-his-first-100-days\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani on his 100th day<\/a> running New York City \u2014 saying he wanted the mayor to make his hometown \u201csparkle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, 79, and Mamdani, 34, have maintained friendly relations following a November meeting in the Oval Office \u2014 despite Hizzoner continuing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/10\/mamdani-still-thinks-trumps-a-fascist-but-he-says-they-both-love-new-york-00866163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">call the commander in chief a \u201cfascist,\u201d<\/a> a barb the president didn\u2019t mention when asked about the mayor\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, 79, and Mamdani, 34, have maintained friendly relations following a November meeting in the Oval Office. Yuri Gripas \u2013 Pool via CNP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGotta lower taxes or everyone\u2019s leaving. It\u2019s very simple,\u201d Trump told The Post when <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/10\/us-news\/mamdanis-viral-campaign-promises-sputter-out-in-first-100-days-big-difference-between-campaigning-governing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked to review the socialist mayor<\/a>, with whom he regularly swaps text messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/10\/us-news\/here-are-the-promises-zohran-mamdani-broke-in-his-first-100-days-in-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clean up the city<\/a>. The city is looking not good. You got to clean up Manhattan, clean it up, make it sparkle, number one, and you got to lower taxes, or everyone\u2019s leaving,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you got to stop crime by calling in the United States government to let us help. Those three things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president and Mamdani blasted each other ahead of last November\u2019s mayor race, with Trump calling him a \u201ccommunist.\u201d Helayne Seidman for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani has sought to partner with Trump on shared priorities, such as building more housing, and privately met with him on Feb. 27 to pitch a plan involving $21 billion in federal grants to build 12,000 units and deck over rail tracks in Sunnyside, Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/27\/mamdani-trump-white-house-meeting\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201centhusiastic\u201d<\/a> about the concept, the mayor\u2019s spokesperson said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The president and Mamdani blasted each other ahead of last November\u2019s mayor race, with Trump calling him a \u201ccommunist\u201d and going so far as to endorse his longtime foe, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was running as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>Trump stepped in when a reporter asked Mamdani if he still considered Trump a fascist. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n<p>In November, Trump welcomed Mamdani to the Oval Office for a stunningly warm encounter where he said the fellow Queens native is a \u201cvery rational person\u201d who is \u201cgoing to surprise some conservative people, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump stepped in when a reporter asked Mamdani if he still considered Trump a fascist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s OK, you can just say yes,\u201d Trump joked.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani said \u201cyes\u201d again in an interview published Friday by Politico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump offered three suggestions to Zohran Mamdani on his 100th day running New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,87,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-192286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}