After trading barbs for months through social media and the press, President Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani stuck a remarkably different tone when they spoke to reporters Friday afternoon for about 30 minutes in the Oval Office following their much-anticipated White House meeting.

In a surprising shift, the two were positive and often complimentary, with Mr. Trump saying that Mamdani "can do some things that I think are gonna be really great," and adding that his meeting with the 34-year-old mayor-elect "surprised" him.

"We agree on a lot more than I would have thought," the president said of Mamdani, a democratic socialist whom the president had previously referred to as "a communist lunatic."

Both reiterated that while they have their differences, they als

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