New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Monday that he reached out to the White House to arrange a meeting with Donald Trump, signaling a cooling of tensions between the two leaders after months of harsh rhetoric.
“My team reached out to the White House to fulfill a commitment I made to New Yorkers over the course of this campaign," Mamdani told reporters at a food pantry in the Bronx, adding that the proposed meeting was part of a pledge to voters to “address the affordability crisis that is pushing so many of them out of the city.”
"We are seeing his actions and that of his administration in Washington leading to the exact opposite effect for New Yorkers, and I will go to make the case to the president and to anyone, frankly, that these are the kinds of things we need to change if we want to make it easier for New Yorkers and for Americans to afford the day-to-day necessities of their life,” Mamdani said.
Why?
Politics and the intertwined relationship between one of the most profitable cities on Earth and the federal government to which it belongs don’t stop just because said federal government is headed by a pedo-clown. Better to get ahead of it and make it known you’re trying to get work done.
It’s really smart of Mamdani too, he knows Trump is going to make a performative circus of it instead of just meeting and doing business, and he can use that to solidify support among New Yorkers. Mamdani has huge challenges ahead, winning the election was actually the easy part.
To highlight their hypocrisy by showing the world that Republicans don’t actually care to help the public. They just want to enrich themselves.
But, the world already knows republicans don’t care to help the public and just want to enrich themselves.
You’d like to think that. But many Republicans have no concept of that. Not that this will change that