Trump and Mamdani form an unlikely alliance at White House meeting

‘We agreed a lot more than I would have thought,’ the US president said of his first face-to-face meeting with the New York mayor-electUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, walked out of their meeting Friday afternoon with an unlikely alliance, agreeing to work together on housing, food prices and cost-of-living concerns that have defined both their political appeals to working-class voters.“We agreed a lot more than I would have thought,” Trump said in the Oval Office, sometimes jumping in to shield Mamdani from aggressive questioning from the press. Continue reading…