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The president hosted the mayor-elect at the White House – and seemed enamoured of his fellow New Yorker

The highly anticipated Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani – the mayor-elect of New York City, the US president’s beloved home town – was hardly the combustible tête-à-tête many had predicted. For the moment at least, the two New Yorkers appeared friendly, smiling and cautiously optimistic about the work they might accomplish together.

Neither revived their hot campaign trail rhetoric, in which they cast each other as diametrically opposed political adversaries. Trump had labeled Mamdani a “100% Communist Lunatic” and urged voters to back his opponent, the former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. In turn, Mamdani had assailed Trump as a “despot” and pledged to be the president’s “worst nightmare”. Here are 5 things that stood out from their surprising display of political bonhomie:

  1. Trump and Mamdani <3 New York

  2. Trump would live in Mamdani’s New York

  3. Trump dismisses Republican attacks on Mamdani

  4. Trump deflected pointed questions from conservative journalists to Mamdani

  5. Adversaries turned affordability agenda partners

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[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 33 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I feel like Zohran must have tried to appeal to Trump's nostalgia for the city. Trying to, make it great again, perhaps? I can't imagine any other way that Trump would suddenly be on board.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 35 points 18 hours ago

Trump has always appeared to be easily persuadable by people with strong personalities and conviction as long as they weren't directly attacking him at the time. That's why his opinions on this seem to change to match whoever he last had a conversation with. He's a sucker for what the incels refer to as alpha males.

And he's always been a clout chaser. Zohran is getting a lot of media attention, and there's nothing he likes more than being seen with popular people

[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

Saudis probably told him to be nice to him.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 9 points 18 hours ago

I'm Learning SO MUCH! Quick! We need to KISS Trump's Ass and ask for NOTHING in Return!

-Chuck Schumer!

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago