President Heaps Praise on Mamdani and New York’s Future

“We agree on a lot more than I would have thought,” Trump says about Mamdani.

While this public posture is quite a change for the president, Trump has privately complimented Mamdani in recent weeks. I wrote about that recently.

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Mamdani seems to be slightly uncomfortable with Trump’s flattery. He keeps turning back to his affordability agenda. He brings up that there was a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whom he admires, at the White House. Trump says Mamdani took a photo with the portrait.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/21/us/trump-news