When it was first announced that the mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, was going to meet President Donald Trump, people expected one thing: chaos. But for some reason, when the two finally had a joint press conference after their closed-door meeting, Trump was practically swooning over Mamdani, much to the confusion of everyone in the room.
Trump has curated the White House press to be majority favorable to MAGA worldviews and causes. So when the press was finally invited into the Oval Office, where Trump was seated and Mamdani stood by his right shoulder, the press were asking questions that normally would instigate a verbal argument the likes of which would make the one with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy look like child’s play.
