Trump and Mamdani Show Their Unlikely Rapport, This Time in New York

President Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani met behind closed doors at the mayor’s residence in New York City on Monday. And as with their two previous meetings at the White House, the discussions seemed to have been warm, respectful and perhaps even productive.

Emerging together after the roughly one-hour meeting, they chatted closely and informally before walking slowly to a lectern with the mayoral seal and beginning a joint news conference that the president had not been scheduled to attend.

Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, came after a series of victories in New York and around the country by leftist candidates, whom the president and his fellow Republicans continue to deride as communists and extremists.

Yet Mr. Trump and the mayor, ideological opposites in just about every way, remained deferential to each other. The president reiterated a previous statement that he hoped Mr. Mamdani would be a “great mayor,” and Mr. Mamdani said he was ready to work with anybody, including Mr. Trump, to help New Yorkers.

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