"New York City's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he still believes United States President Donald Trump is a fascist, despite a surprisingly warm meeting between the two politically polarised men at the White House this week. That's something that I've said in the past; I say it today, Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, said about the Republican president in an interview aired on NBC News on Sunday."
"Mamdani's comments came two days after he met with Trump, setting aside months of mutual recriminations and promising to cooperate on the city's future. Trump, who grew up in New York, called Mamdani a 100% Communist Lunatic in a social media post following the incoming mayor's election victory, and Mamdani has said Trump was attacking democracy. During their meeting, Trump, who had previously suggested the Ugandan-born New Yorker should be deported, even came to his rescue as the two addressed reporters at the White House."
"[What] I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement, about the politics that have brought us to this moment, he said. I found the meeting that I had with the president a productive one and a meeting that came back again and again to the central themes of the campaign that we ran: the cost of housing, cost of childcare, the cost of groceries, the cost of utilities."
Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-elect of New York City, says he still believes President Donald Trump is a fascist despite a surprisingly warm White House meeting two days earlier. Mamdani described himself as a democratic socialist and reiterated the comment in an NBC News interview. The meeting set aside months of mutual recriminations and included promises to cooperate on the city's future, with discussion of housing, childcare, groceries and utilities. Trump, who previously criticized Mamdani online and suggested deportation, at times intervened during reporters' questions and praised Mamdani's historic election win. Both men acknowledged disagreements while focusing on city cost-of-living issues.
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