Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reacts to President Donald Trump’s meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): Costs for American families, I will work with anyone, I will make this happen, and he came out of the meeting with Trump having said he would call Con Ed to try to lower the cost of utilities for New Yorkers. Wow, tell me how many mayor-elects actually may get costs reduced for families before they ever get sworn in. I thought Mamdani showed real leadership and real poise to push on through with this. JAKE TAPPER, CNN: How do you square the circle of the fact that this president, who just was incredibly gracious and kind to mayor-elect Mamdani, who, just to be frank here, barely won as the Democratic nominee. I mean, he beat his, I shouldn’t say barely won, he barely got 50% of the vote, even though it’s an overwhelming Democratic — WARREN: Yeah, come on. TAPPER: Yeah, he overwhelmingly won. WARREN: By large margins. TAPPER: He overwhelmingly won. I misspoke. But he barely got 50% of the vote. But here’s President Trump. The question I want to ask is about Trump, not Mamdani, which is, President Trump, just in the last 24 hours, was suggesting the execution of six of your colleagues for just simply saying members of the military shouldn’t carry out illegal orders. He got mad at reporters for asking about MBS, having ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, criticized Khashoggi, said to a woman reporter just a few days before that, quiet piggy. As a senator that has to deal with this president one way or another, how do you make sense of that, that that same guy was this very gracious host, laser-like focused on affordability? WARREN: Well, you hit the last part, and it’s laser-like focused on affordability. Donald Trump has a terrible problem with affordability. He promised he was going to reduce prices on day one. Prices are up across the board. He is in trouble. His poll numbers are dropping. People’s confidence in his ability to handle the economy is dropping. His tariffs are imposing more costs on more people. His energy policy is raising the cost of utilities across the country. He has a problem. And Zohran Mamdani is the person who is now associated with fixing that problem. So is it any surprise that Donald Trump wants to stand next to Zohran Mamdani and say, oh yeah, we think about things the same way, particularly when it comes to affordability? He’s just trying to take a little of the shine that Zohran Mamdani has and see if he can, you know, rub a little on Donald Trump. TAPPER: Yeah, embracing the avatar of affordability. Interesting. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, thank you so much, appreciate it.

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