President Donald Trump offered praise for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday after the two men met for the first time at the White House to discuss the growing issue of affordability.

While the Republican president and the Democratic mayor-elect have hurled searing attacks at each other in the recent past, they repeatedly shrugged off those words while appearing side by side in the Oval Office.

At one point, when Mamdani was asked for the second time about having called Trump a "fascist," the president gave him cover.

"That's OK, you can just say yes," Trump said after Mamdani began to respond. "It's easier than explaining it."

Trump also appeared to backtrack on his prior threat to withhold federal funding for New York City if Mamdani became its mayor.

"I don't th

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