Trump Says He’d ‘Feel Very Comfortable’ in Mamdani’s NYC (1)

President Donald Trump said he wants to see Zohran Mamdani succeed, saying after a highly anticipated sitdown that he’d “feel very comfortable” living in a New York run by the mayor-elect and that he doesn’t anticipate cutting off funding for the country’s most populous city.

“I expect to be helping him, not hurting him,” Trump said of Mamdani in a press conference that repeatedly stressed the two politicians’ political alignment over cost-of-living issues. “I want New York City to be great.”

The meeting was the first between the two leaders who have clashed publicly over their political agendas but are ...