Overview
- On Sunday’s Meet the Press, the New York City mayor-elect said he still views President Trump as a fascist and a threat to democracy despite their Oval Office meeting.
- Both sides called Friday’s session productive, with discussions centered on housing, utilities, child care, transit and the broader affordability crisis.
- Trump praised Mamdani, said they agree on more than expected and promised help, later indicating federal deployments to New York would occur only if the city needs it.
- Immigration enforcement remains a key friction point, as Mamdani pressed concerns about detentions tied to routine court appearances and withheld whether Trump agreed to limits.
- Mamdani said he will retain NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to anchor a safety-first affordability agenda and emphasized local policing—not federal agents—as his approach.