{"id":47971,"date":"2025-11-21T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47971\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:02:10","slug":"trump-praises-nyc-mayor-elect-mamdani-a-turnaround-from-weeks-agos-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47971\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump praises NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani, a turnaround from weeks ago\u2019s insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WASHINGTON, DC (WWNY) &#8211; President Trump praised New York City\u2019s mayor-elect in the Oval Office on Friday, a turnaround from weeks ago when the president was insulting Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Also, when Trump was asked about what Congresswoman Elise Stefanik called the mayor-elect, Trump said he didn\u2019t agree with Stefanik.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mamdani won November\u2019s election to become New York City\u2019s next mayor. He met with President Trump for 30 minutes in the Oval Office where Trump said he wanted to help Mamdani, not hurt him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leading up to the election, Trump railed on Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, calling him several times a communist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">North Country Congresswoman and New York Gubernatorial Candidate, Elise Stefanik, called Mamdani a Jihadist, and Trump was asked about that on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMultiple times, \u2018Do you think you\u2019re standing next to a Jihadist right now in the Oval Office?\u2019 No, I know, but she\u2019s at that campaign, and yeah, the same thing sometimes in a campaign. She\u2019s a very capable person, but you know, you really have to ask her about that, but I don\u2019t particularly, I think I make it with a very- I met with a man who\u2019s a very rational person, I think it wants to make it greater than ever before and if he can we\u2019ll be out there cheering I\u2019ll be cheering for him,\u201d said Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We\u2019ve asked Stefanik\u2019s team about President Trump\u2019s comments and a spokesperson sent back to us Stefanik\u2019s post on X, formerly known as Twitter. See below:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We all want NYC to succeed. <\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019ll have to agree to disagree on this one. <\/p>\n<p>If he walks like a jihadist<br \/>If he talks like a jihadist<br \/>If he campaigns like a jihadist<br \/>If he supports jihadists,<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a jihadist. <\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KathyHochul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@KathyHochul<\/a>\u2019s jihadist. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JZaM29d82R\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JZaM29d82R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliseStefanik\/status\/1991995672288182396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, DC (WWNY) &#8211; President Trump praised New York City\u2019s mayor-elect in the Oval Office on Friday, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,424,9,24,55,54,56,87,3904,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-47971","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-elise-stefanik","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-wwny","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47971","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=47971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}