{"id":49586,"date":"2025-11-23T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49586\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:15:13","slug":"mamdani-maintains-trump-a-fascist-despite-cordial-white-house-meeting-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49586\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani maintains Trump a \u2018fascist\u2019 despite cordial White House meeting | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incoming NYC mayor says he still believes the US president is a fascist, two days after they had a friendly meeting.<\/p>\n

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New York City\u2019s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he still believes United States President Donald Trump is a fascist, despite a surprisingly warm meeting between the two politically polarised men at the White House this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that I\u2019ve said in the past; I say it today,\u201d Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, said about the Republican president in an interview aired on NBC News on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Mamdani\u2019s comments came two days after he met with Trump<\/a>, setting aside months of mutual recriminations and promising to cooperate on the city\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

Trump, who grew up in New York, called Mamdani a \u201c100% Communist Lunatic\u201d in a social media post following the incoming mayor\u2019s election victory, and Mamdani has said Trump was attacking democracy.<\/p>\n

During their meeting, Trump, who had previously suggested the Ugandan-born New Yorker should be deported, even came to his rescue as the two addressed reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n

When a journalist asked Mamdani if he continued to view Trump as a fascist, the president stepped in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s OK. You can just say it. That\u2019s easier,\u201d Trump told Mamdani. \u201cIt\u2019s easier than explaining it. I don\u2019t mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani elaborated his stand further in the NBC interview.<\/p>\n

\u201c[What] I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement, about the politics that have brought us to this moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found the meeting that I had with the president a productive one and a meeting that came back again and again to the central themes of the campaign that we ran: the cost of housing, cost of childcare, the cost of groceries, the cost of utilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

After threatening to cut federal funding<\/a> to the US\u2019s biggest city and to send in the US National Guard, Trump praised Mamdani\u2019s historic election win during their meeting, saying he could do a \u201cgreat job\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve just had a great \u2026 very productive meeting. We have one thing in common: we want this city of ours that we love to do very well,\u201d he said later. \u201cWe are going to be helping him to make everybody\u2019s dream come true: having a strong and very safe New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said on the CNN news programme State of the Union that Trump wants to work with everybody who cares about the future of the American people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re at times disagreeing about policies,\u201d Hassett said, \u201cbut I think that the objective of making life better for everybody is something that a lot of people share on the Democratic and Republican side.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incoming NYC mayor says he still believes the US president is a fascist, two days after they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,609,9,24,55,54,12,56,87,901],"class_list":{"0":"post-49586","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-government","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49586","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=49586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}