{"id":48123,"date":"2025-11-22T01:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48123\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:05:27","slug":"after-calling-mamdani-a-100-communist-lunatic-trump-now-says-were-looking-for-the-same-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48123\/","title":{"rendered":"After calling Mamdani a ‘100% Communist lunatic,’ Trump now says ‘we’re looking for the same things’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump has called New York City\u2019s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a \u201c100% Communist Lunatic\u201d and a \u201ctotal nut job.\u201d Mamdani has called\u00a0Trump\u2019s administration \u201cauthoritarian\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and described himself as \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s worst nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

So\u00a0their first-ever meeting<\/a>, scheduled for Friday at 3 p.m. EST at the White House, could be a curious and combustible affair.<\/p>\n

Despite months of casting each other as prime adversaries, the Republican president and new Democratic star have also indicated an openness to finding areas of agreement that help the city they\u2019ve both called home.<\/p>\n

Trump, in a Fox<\/a> News Radio interview Friday morning, said he expected the meeting will be \u201cquite civil.\u201d Mamdani, a democratic socialist who takes office in January, said he sought the meeting with Trump to talk about ways to make New York City more affordable.<\/p>\n

The following has been excerpted from an AP liveblog of Friday\u2019s events to focus on the Trump-Mamdani meeting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has called New York City\u2019s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a \u201c100% Communist Lunatic\u201d and a \u201ctotal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,416,1092,9,24,11,10,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-48123","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-elections","10":"tag-mayor","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48123","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=48123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}