"I expect to be helping him, not hurting him," Trump said of Mamdani, a democratic socialist who he previously denounced as "a communist."

President Donald Trump hosted New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday for a meeting that took place without apparent conflict despite their radically different worldviews.

President Donald Trump has called New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a “100% Communist Lunatic” and a “total nut job.”

Donald Trump just upgraded Zohran Mamdani from a 'communist' and 'lunatic' to a 'really great mayor.' What did we just witness?

Democratic candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani waves next to his mother Mira Nair onstage after winning the 2025 New York City Mayoral race, at an election night rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City,

Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump are the two most prominent populist politicians in America. They grew up on two sides of elite New York City society.

President Donald Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said they had a productive meeting after trading weeks of insults and warnings.

President Donald Trump is accusing half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers — all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community — called on U.