Trump Meets With Mamdani: “The Better He Does, The Happier I Am”
President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani held a press conference in the Oval Office to discuss their meeting.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. We’ve just had a great meeting, a really good, very productive meeting. We have one thing in common. We want this city of ours that we love to do very well. And I wanted to congratulate the mayor. He really ran an incredible race against a lot of smart people, starting with the early primaries against some very tough people, very smart people. And he beat them, and he beat them easily. And I congratulated him. And we talked about some things in very strong common, like housing and getting housing built, and food, and prices. And the price of oil is coming way down. Anything I do is going to be good for New York. If I can get prices down, it’s good for New York. And we’ve got them down, way down from last year. We have, as you know, I’ve been saying to a lot of people, Walmart said that Thanksgiving this year is exactly 25 percent less than last year. So that’s good for New York, good for everybody. But I just want to congratulate. I think you’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor. The better he does, the happier I am, I will say. There’s no difference in party. There’s no difference in anything. And we’re going to be helping him to make everybody’s dream come true, having a strong and very safe New York. And congratulations, Mr. Mayor. NEW YORK CITY MAYOR-ELECT: ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Thank you, Mr. President.
