Overview
- After a roughly 30-minute private discussion, both leaders called the conversation productive and focused on bringing down housing, grocery and utility costs.
- Trump praised Mamdani’s victory, said he wants to help New York, and added he would feel comfortable living in the city under the incoming mayor.
- He brushed off past insults, rejected a GOP ally’s “jihadist” label for Mamdani, and joked when Mamdani was pressed about calling him a fascist.
- No policy agreements or new federal funding were announced, though Trump signaled a shift from earlier threats to cut aid or send in the National Guard.
- Analysts said the détente blunts Republican efforts to use Mamdani as a national foil and offers Trump an affordability message heading into the midterms.