Months of sniping melted away Friday (November 21, 2025) as New York’s incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. President Donald Trump were all smiles at a White House meeting — promising to set aside their feud and cooperate on the city’s future.

Mr. Mamdani, a 34-year-old political insurgent who rocketed from obscurity to win City Hall earlier this month, had taken on Mr. Trump in a bruising war of words, likening the Republican to “bad landlords... taking advantage of their tenants.”

Washington watchers were bracing for sparks to fly when the self-described Democratic socialist met the Republican leader who has in turn branded the Mayor-elect a “communist” and suggested the Ugandan-born New Yorker should be deported.

But the Oval Office summit was instead the embodiment of civility as

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