{"id":48111,"date":"2025-11-22T00:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48111\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T00:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:51:16","slug":"trump-says-hed-feel-comfortable-living-in-zohran-mamdanis-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48111\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He’d Feel Comfortable Living in Zohran Mamdani’s NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zohran Mamdani<\/a> appears to have charmed Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following a meeting with the New York City mayor-elect in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon, the president had nothing but nice things to say about the man whose politics couldn’t be more different than his.<\/p>\n

“I think you’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,” Trump told reporters as Mamdani stood beside him. “He’s going to surprise some conservative people, actually.”<\/p>\n

It marked a striking reversal in Trump’s rhetoric toward the Democratic socialist state assemblyman. In recent months, the president had derided Mamdani as a “communist,” urged New Yorkers to support his chief opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and had even threatened to cut off federal funding<\/a> to the city if Mamdani were elected mayor.<\/p>\n

On Friday, all of that seemed to be buried.<\/p>\n

Mamdani sounded a conciliatory note, pointing out that he and Trump shared many voters and that both had run campaigns based on addressing concerns about affordability.<\/p>\n

“We spoke about rent, we spoke about groceries, we spoke about utilities,” Mamdani said. “We spoke about the different ways in which people are being pushed out.”<\/p>\n

Trump described Mamdani as “rational,” said that he “really wants to see New York be great again,” and said he and the mayor-elect shared many of the same goals. Most significantly, Trump pledged to work with Mamdani, saying he expects “to be helping him, not hurting him.”<\/p>\n

At one point, Trump \u2014 who was born and raised in New York City \u2014 even said that he would feel comfortable living in the city with Mamdani as mayor.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely,” Trump said. “I want him to do a great job, and we’ll help him do a great job.”<\/p>\n

The two men seemed to find one particular point of agreement: the rates charged by Con Edison, the main energy provider in the New York City area.<\/p>\n

“We’ve gotten fuel prices way down, but it hasn’t shown up in Con Edison,” Trump said. “We have to get Con Edison to start lowering their rates.”<\/p>\n

“Absolutely,” Mamdani added.<\/p>\n

Following the Oval Office meeting, Trump posted a picture of himself and the New York City mayoral-elect on Truth Social, the president’s social media company, which attracts a lot of his supporters.<\/p>\n

“It was a Great Honor meeting Zohran Mamdani, the new Mayor of New York City!” the post said.<\/p>\n

In some ways, the mutual respect isn’t completely unexpected. Both men have demonstrated an ability to capture and maintain attention in the modern media environment, a quality that Trump acknowledged at one point when speaking to reporters.<\/p>\n

“The press has eaten this thing up,” Trump said. “You know, outside, you have hundreds of people waiting.”<\/p>\n

“He’s different than, you know, your average candidate,” Trump added. “He came out of nowhere.”<\/p>\n

In keeping the meeting respectable, Trump could also be positioning himself close to a candidate who has made affordability a central part of his mayoral campaign. The Trump administration has recently begun to shift its focus to affordability issues<\/a>, Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n

The president even sought to smooth things over when a reporter asked Mamdani if he considers the president to be a fascist. As Mamdani began to answer, a smiling Trump interjected.<\/p>\n

“That’s OK, you can just say yes,” he said. “It’s easier than explaining it. I don’t mind.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani appears to have charmed Donald Trump. Following a meeting with the New York City mayor-elect in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1168,27183,27184,27186,27181,8639,9,24288,27182,56,63,65,64,23277,854,27185,27180,1069,82],"class_list":["post-48111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-con-edison","tag-conservative-people","tag-friday-afternoon","tag-great-job","tag-great-mayor","tag-man","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-mayor-elect","tag-nice-thing","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-point","tag-president","tag-rate","tag-reporter","tag-trump","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48111","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=48111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}