After spending the last few months exchanging accusations, Donald Trump and the new socialist mayor of New York, a Muslim Zohran Mamdanithey met at the White House on the afternoon of November 21 (15:00 in the US, and 21:00 in Italy), to seal the ceasefire by laying down the hatchet. On the table is a threat militarize The city was launched by the president, but on the eve of the meeting, the mood was reversed, with the Tycoon willing to work with the mayor of the Big Apple. Subsequent statements confirmed a ceasefire between leaders on opposite sides of the political spectrum.
Harmony between mayor and president
The president assured his former rival of “great assistance” in realizing his program. “He would be a great mayor,” continued an enthusiastic Donald Trump, “he I will help to make his dreams come true for New York”. At his side during the press conference, Zohran Mamdani smiled very happily. He also shrugged off any animosity towards the president, defining the meeting as “very productive”. The mayor demonstrated common goals with the White House, First fight against high cost of living in the Big Apple and its needs House cheap: two pillars of his campaign. The tone is light years away from the arguments that have occurred in recent months. The name “communist” has disappeared from the president’s vocabulary. Indeed, Trump acknowledged that “some of the ideas” of the socialists were “like his own,” and now that he had met him “he was convinced that he would fit right in at Mamdani in New York.”
Trump: “We will collaborate on migrants”
But not long before the meeting, the Council had approved a resolution to censure “the horrors of socialismHowever, at the press conference, their harmony exploded. When a reporter asked Mamdani if he still thought Trump was a “fascist“, the President jokingly invited her to answer like this:” yes, it’s easier than explaining “. Trump led the question about the resolution against socialism. When asked if he agreed with Republican Stefanik that the first citizen is “jihadist“, he replied: “I met a very rational person”.
Trump says he is optimistic about one of the most divisive issues: intervention icefederal agency about immigration and border security: “I think we will find a solution,” the tycoon said, backing tightening by also deploying units in Chicago and Charlotte. Since Trump took federal control of the Washington police force and mobilized troops from the police force National Guardthe idea emerged that New York was the next destination. Mamdani, on the other hand, criticized Ice. Trump said that in the meeting Mamdani talked about how he “wanted a safe New York.” “So we’re going to work together. We’re going to make sure that if there are bad people in there, we want to get them out,” Trump added. “I think he probably wanted to get it out more than I did.”
New demo guard
To prepare for the meeting, Mamdani held lengthy discussions with Democratic Party leaders, starting from the Governor of New York, Kathy Hochulto the House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffriesto Senate veterans Chuck Schumer. But by his side in the Oval Office was a new generation of Democrats: Elle Bisgaard Church And Morris Katz (two main advisors) and spokesperson Dora Pekec; the average age was under 30, like all of Mamdani’s inner circle. When asked if he felt like the leader of the Democratic Party, the mayor was dismissive: “I’m the mayor of New York, my attention is completely focused on that.”
