Overview
- Both leaders called the White House session productive and said they share priorities on rent, groceries, utilities and large-scale housing construction.
- Trump said he expects to help the mayor-elect rather than cut support, adding he would feel comfortable living in New York under Mamdani’s leadership.
- Mamdani underscored public safety plans to keep the NYPD at roughly 35,000 officers and reduce police responses to mental-health calls.
- The tone turned notably cordial when Trump told Mamdani to “just say yes” to a question about whether he still views the president as a fascist, which Mamdani affirmed.
- Trump rejected a GOP claim that Mamdani is a “jihadist,” praised him as rational and welcomed his decision to retain police commissioner Jessica Tisch.