What to know about the Trump-Mamdani meeting:

President Trump and incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani seemed to put aside their differences in a remarkable scene at the White House on Friday, saying they looked forward to working together after months of bruising public criticism.

Speaking to reporters after their first meeting in the Oval Office , both men said they had a productive conversation that mostly focused on improving New York. "The better he does, the happier I am," the president said. Mamdani, who takes office on Jan. 1, said he is "really looking forward to delivering for New Yorkers in partnership with the president on the affordability agenda."

In a particularly notable moment, the president said that "some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have.

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