Posted on 09/22/2026 5:26:02 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump was highly complimentary of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) when speaking to the press outside Gracie Mansion on Monday.
The feed was provided by Spectrum News NY1 and taken by CNN in the midst of the White House press pool pushing back on Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.
In his remarks, Mamdani said the two discussed, “how we can make it easier to afford life in this great city that we call our home.”
Trump called Gracie Mansion “a special place,” adding, “I’ve seen it with numerous different mayors. And I said some great ones and some not-so-great ones. So, hopefully you’re going to be a great one,” Trump directed at Mamdani.
He continued:
I’ll be able to say, you’re going to be a great one, and you’re off to a start. So, I just want to thank the mayor for the invitation. I’m in New York to do the United Nations tomorrow. I have a lot of meetings right now today, very important meetings, with heads of different countries. But this is like a little bit of old home week for me because so many things we’ve done, so many things from the beautiful home or house or building standing right behind me.
When taking questions from the press, Trump said Mamdani had the “potential” to be a “great mayor.”
“I certainly hope he will be a great mayor. You have to understand, I want what’s good for New York,” Trump said of his hometown. “I want what’s good for the country. So, if I had a choice of having him be a bad mayor or horrible mayor, I don’t want that. I want him to be a great mayor, and he’s certainly got potential, got great potential.”
Trump has been highly critical of Mamdani, a democratic socialist, recently ripping the New York mayor and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as “terrible” for “laughing” during a ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. In fact, the two were warmly greeting each other, not “laughing” as reported by MAGA pundits.
Trump has referred to Mamdani as a “communist,” and Mamdani has hit back at Trump, calling him a “fascist.”
When the two met at the White House, however, Trump was very complimentary of Mamdani, saying he was “better looking in person,” in a cozy meeting that shocked the political world.
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How is Mamdani an enemy that could in anyway threaten Donald Trump’s presidency?
By your logic, he should buddy up with Gavin Newsom and AOC.
Wishful thinking.
There is no rope.
I can’t believe that Trump would be that stupid as to believe that POS Mamdani, I know DJT likes to negotiate but that Mooslim doesn’t know how.
The communists are all confused now. Actually more confused than they usually are.
The two met months ago. Nothing has changed.
Sorry but beginning to wonder if the stress of this disaster in Iran, the potential loss of Congress and the constant unrelenting attacks is wearing Trump down and he is not what he once recently was.
Trump can kiss the muzzies behind all he wants. the muzzie will still come after trumps real estate holdings in NYC. Trump should be smacking the red/green alliance down, not propping it up in any way, even as a joke.
Trump lives in NYC and will return there after 2028.
Setting Mami up for something. 😆
“Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.”
A Corleone origin
Mamdani was not flashing his sick grin while with President Trump in front of Gracie yesterday.
I could feel the hatred from here. No doubt Trump did as well
What either of them SAID was ‘just business’ - another Corleone saying
😂
Reminds me of Corleone meeting with Hyman Roth.
Play with a dangerous snake ... get bit by a dangerous snake.
And so does just about every New Yorker with an IQ above the highest temperature ever recorded in New York City’s Central Park.
In case you are wondering, the high temperature in Central Park in New York City was 106 degrees Fahrenheit.
If this is Trumps idea of a head-fake its a damn strange one.
I am sure that Melania views Florida as a prison.
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Mar-a-Lago is the place to be.
Resort livin’ is the life for me.
Ocean spreadin’ out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that waterside.
New York is where I’d rather stay.
I get allergic smelling the bay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
...The shores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square
You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Mar-a-Lago we are there.
Germany had a great leader in the 1930s and early 1940s ... he powerfully affected world events and established the course for future development of his country.
Madmani seems to be developing into the same sort of great leader.
That’s a weird leap.
Care to share with us the political roadmap you see which would allow that? Keep in mind that he can never run for president.
“Play with a dangerous snake ... get bit by a dangerous snake.”
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