New Delhi: They expected a bloodbath. They got a praise fest.

The highly anticipated White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani panned out not at all like anyone had imagined it.

Though Trump did predict things would be “civil”, what reporters, and the rest of the world saw at the White House Friday was two New Yorkers who have used the choicest of words to attack each other, striking a surprisingly conciliatory tone. Show Full Article

The US President was effusive in his praise for the young Mamdani, the latter, though guarded, consistently emphasised his intentions to work with the Trump administration, as the two New Yorkers stressed on their shared goal of addressing NYC’s affordability crisis.

The two deftly skirted the unc

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