Once upon a time — just in the past months — President Donald Trump called Zohran Mamdani "down and dirty," "my little communist mayor,” an antisemite, and "a radical left lunatic” who "looks Terrible . " Trump threatened to arrest and deport him and withhold federal funding from New York City and seize control if he were elected.

Mamdani, 34 and now the mayor-elect, had described himself as Trump’s "worst nightmare” and threatened to "fight him every step up the way,” branding the president a fascist, a "despot” who is waging "a war on working people” and "an attack on our democracy.”

But on Friday, in a remarkable first meeting between the two at the White House, the men lavished praise on each other, vowed to work to make society more affordable, and Trump even jokingly sh

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