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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump have been exchanging “pleasant” missives at the least twice every week — because the unlikely bromance between the socialist and conservative commander-in-chief continues to blossom, The Put up has discovered.
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The previous Astoria lawmaker and the Queens native have semi-regularly been chatting by way of textual content since their chummy White Home assembly in November, discussing a variety of matters, from the toppling of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and zoning crimson tape in Massive Apple actual property, in line with sources.
President Donald Trump met with New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for the primary time within the Oval Workplace throughout November. (Jim Watson / AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Insiders with data of the dialog described the tone of the texts as “pleasant.”
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“It wouldn’t make sensible, political sense for them to scream at one another — in public or non-public,” one politico stated, whereas additionally noting, “In fact, they’ll’t seem too cozy.”
The supply added: “Mamdani could be good to kiss Trump’s ass … Particularly when the federal authorities can withhold billions from town.”
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (L) within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on Nov. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Pictures)
The budding relationship and the regularity with which the 2 chat personally are a marked departure from earlier interactions between presidents and New York Metropolis mayors in latest historical past.
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Even Mamdani’s predecessor Mayor Eric Adams, who cozied as much as Trump and rushed right down to DC in the course of the evening to attend his inauguration final yr, needed to join with the president via intermediaries.
Andrew Kirtzman, CEO of the strategic communications agency KSX, stated it was “exceptional that Trump feels so comfy with [Mamdani].”
New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump take questions from the press following their one-on-one assembly, Friday, within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, in Washington, D.C. (Pool / Fox Information)
“He hated (Invoice) de Blasio, the final left-wing mayor, and possibly felt estranged from town due to it,” he stated. “He appears to really feel an emotional reference to Mamdani. The mayor should be completely amazed by what’s occurring.”
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Requested how this may play with Mamdani’s base of Democratic Socialists of America members who despise the Republican White Home, Kirtzman stated he believed they’d doubtless give the lefty mayor a go.
“I believe the left understands that is purely transactional from Mamdani’s perspective,” he stated.
