Zohran Mamdani Stands By Calling Trump A Fascist After Rosy White House Meeting | EUROtoday

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani stood his floor on Sunday in calling Donald Trump a fascist, simply days after a surprisingly chummy assembly on the White House that resulted in some coverage agreements and surprising reward by the president for the leftist chief whose candidacy he beforehand condemned.

Mamdani didn’t shrink back from calling the president a fascist throughout his mayoral marketing campaign, and doubled down throughout Friday’s assembly when a reporter requested if he nonetheless stands by that assertion.

Trump interjected earlier than Mamdani might reply, saying: “That’s OK, you can just say yes. It’s easier than explaining it, I don’t mind.”

“OK, yes,” the mayor-elect stated with a smile as Trump patted his arm.

On Sunday, Mamdani was requested once more if he nonetheless thinks Trump is a fascist.

“That’s something that I’ve said in the past. I say it today,” he informed NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement, about the politics that has brought us to this moment. And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.”

The pleasant partnership shocked the general public, notably after the White House and Republican allies repeatedly demonized Mamdani over his identities as a Muslim immigrant and a Democratic socialist. Some politicians, like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), proceed to take action.

The mayor-elect stated that earlier than the assembly, he mulled if establishing a “productive relationship” with Trump would assist tackle the affordability points that “New Yorkers stay up late at night thinking about.”

“So often in our politics we try and tell people what they should be worried about, what they should be concerned about,” Mamdani stated.

“When you actually ask New Yorkers and you listen to them, you hear it come back to the issues that animated not just the conversation the president and I had with the press after our meeting, but frankly in the meeting itself,” he continued. “It was a conversation where we spoke about the need to deliver on this agenda.”