Hours before his scheduled Oval Office meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, US President Donald Trump said he believes the two leaders “will get along fine,” despite their sharp ideological differences and a heated election season.

Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Trump acknowledged Mamdani’s radically different worldview but said both ultimately want the same thing — “a strong New York.”

“He’s got a different philosophy. He’s a little bit different,” Trump said. “I give him a lot of credit for the run. It was a successful run… runs are not easy. But I think we’ll get along fine. Look, we want the same thing — we want to make New York strong.”

Trump also addressed Mamdani’s pointed victory-night message, in which the mayor-elect urged him to “turn the volume up” on the

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