Mayor-elect of\u00a0New York says he will not mince words on Trump, but \u2018door open\u2019 to dialogue.<\/p>\n
United States President Donald Trump has suggested that he is open to assisting New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, but warned that the trailblazing democratic socialist will need to be \u201crespectful\u201d of Washington to succeed.<\/p>\n
Trump made the comments on Wednesday as Mamdani announced his transition team following his historic election as the first Muslim and first South Asian mayor of the US\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n
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Responding to Mamdani\u2019s victory night remarks pledging to stand up to Trump, the US president described the mayor-elect\u2019s comments as a \u201cdangerous statement\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has to be a little bit respectful of Washington, because if he\u2019s not, he doesn\u2019t have a chance of succeeding,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Fox News\u2019\u00a0Bret Baier.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I want to make him succeed. I want to make the city succeed,\u201d Trump added, before\u00a0quickly\u00a0clarifying that he wanted New York City, not Mamdani, to succeed.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump suggested that his administration would \u201chelp\u201d the new mayor, even as he branded him a \u201ccommunist\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe communists, Marxists, and globalists had their chance, and they delivered nothing but disaster, and now let\u2019s see how a communist does in New York. We\u2019re going to see how that works out,\u201d Trump said in a speech to the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll\u00a0help\u00a0him,\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0help him.\u00a0We want New York to be successful.\u00a0We\u2019ll\u00a0help\u00a0him\u00a0a little bit, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump railed against Mamdani in the run-up to Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0mayoral election\u00a0in New York, describing him as a \u201ccommunist lunatic\u201d and threatening to\u00a0cut off federal\u00a0funding to\u00a0the city\u00a0if he won the race.<\/p>\n
Mamdani, whose\u00a0platform\u00a0includes\u00a0free\u00a0universal\u00a0childcare, free buses,\u00a0and government-run\u00a0grocery\u00a0stores, has rejected the communist label, describing himself as a democratic socialist.<\/p>\n
While Mamdani will be responsible for governing a city of about 8.5 million people, his election has been widely seen as having implications nationwide amid the Democratic Party\u2019s struggles to reconcile its centrist and progressive factions and effectively counter Trump.<\/p>\n
In his victory speech, Mamdani cast his election as a model for how to defeat Trump, addressing the TV-loving president directly by telling him to \u201cturn the volume up\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a speech laying out his priorities on Wednesday, Mamdani, who is set to take office on January 1, reiterated his determination to oppose Trump, while also indicating his willingness to engage with the administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will not mince my words when it comes to President Trump,\u201d the mayor-elect said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will continue to describe his actions as they are, and I will also always do so while leaving a door open to have that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect of\u00a0New York says he will not mince words on Trump, but \u2018door open\u2019 to dialogue. United States…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,9,11,10,12,87,901,2272],"class_list":{"0":"post-30321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-us-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30321","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=30321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}