"Asked if Trump had assured him he wouldn't send troops into the city, Mamdani said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he made it "very clear what we wanted to do was to deliver public safety and affordability, and the NYPD would be the ones to do so." He said he told the president during their Friday meeting that "what separates New York City from anywhere else in the country is we have the NYPD," which Mamdani said he trusted to "deliver public safety." The comments came after Mamdani's first trip to the Oval Office as mayor-elect, where he and the president emphasized common ground on tackling the city's affordability crisis."
"Catch up quick: Mamdani, the city's first Muslim elected mayor, has cast Trump as a threat to both the city and the country. Mamdani's meteoric rise further fueled the president's focus on his hometown as the GOP cast the democratic socialist as a far-left bogeyman, falsely calling him a communist. Trump had threatened to have Mamdani arrested if New York blocked federal immigration officials from detaining undocumented immigrants and said he'd withhold federal funding from a city that receives billions in federal dollars each year. In August, amid a National Guard crackdown and police takeover in D.C., the president said New York City would be one of his next targets."
Mamdani told Trump he wanted public safety and affordability delivered by the NYPD and that the NYPD would be responsible for maintaining safety. The Oval Office meeting emphasized common ground on tackling the city's affordability crisis. Mamdani, the city's first Muslim mayor-elect, has portrayed Trump as a threat to the city and the country while opponents labeled him a far-left bogeyman. Trump previously threatened arrests, withholding federal funds, and deploying the National Guard to New York. After the meeting Trump praised Mamdani as "very rational," said he might deploy the Guard "if they need it," and aides signaled a softening on funding threats.
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