Donald Trump is famous for being willing to meet anyone – Russia’s Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Syria’s al-Jolani – and even New York’s Zohran Mamdani.
The mayor-elect of the city of Trump’s birth will travel to Washington today for an audience with the Commander in Chief, and America’s journalists are furiously tapping away in anticipation of a big “showdown.”
The two men have spent months insulting each other. Trump calls Mamdani a “communist” (which the New York Times factchecks as false, naturally, because Zohran identifies as a “democratic socialist”) and has suggested, to much liberal apoplexy, that he “may not be here legally.” Trump also says that he is “much better looking,” which is funny, and has proposed sending in the National Guard in to Mamdani’s New York and withholding more billions in federal funding for the city. When asked about Mamdani’s defiant rhetoric against his policies on immigration, Trump replied: “Well, then, we’ll have to arrest him.”
Mamdani, for his part, presented his successful election campaign as an explicit rebuke of Trumpism. In a belligerent victory speech on November 4, he declared: “Donald Trump, since I know you are watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up.”
The two men have spent months insulting each other. Trump calls Mamdani a “communist” (which the New York Times factchecks as false, naturally, because Zohran identifies as a “democratic socialist”) and has suggested, to much liberal apoplexy, that he “may not be here legally.” Trump also says that he is “much better looking,” which is funny, and has proposed sending in the National Guard in to Mamdani’s New York and withholding more billions in federal funding for the city. When asked about Mamdani’s defiant rhetoric against his policies on immigration, Trump replied: “Well, then, we’ll have to arrest him.”
The two men have spent months insulting each other. Trump calls Mamdani a “communist” (which the New York Times factchecks as false, naturally, because Zohran identifies as a “democratic socialist”) and has suggested, to much liberal apoplexy, that he “may not be here legally.” Trump also says that he is “much better looking,” which is funny, and has proposed sending in the National Guard in to Mamdani’s New York and withholding more billions in federal funding for the city. When asked about Mamdani’s defiant rhetoric against his policies on immigration, Trump replied: “Well, then, we’ll have to arrest him.”
Mamdani, for his part, presented his successful election campaign as an explicit rebuke of Trumpism. In a belligerent victory speech on November 4, he declared: “Donald Trump, since I know you are watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up.”
Mamdani, for his part, presented his successful election campaign as an explicit rebuke of Trumpism. In a belligerent victory speech on November 4, he declared: “Donald Trump, since I know you are watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up.”
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