Trump and Mamdani appear friendly after ‘wide-ranging’ meeting at Gracie Mansion

Republican president said he hoped the democratic socialist would be a ‘great mayor’ for New York City Donald Trump said on Monday that he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a “great mayor” for New York, an unusually warm assessment of the democratic socialist leader whom the president and his Republican allies have spent months holding up as a symbol of the Democratic party’s alleged embrace of “communism” ahead of the November midterms.

At a news conference following their closed-door meeting at Gracie Mansion, Trump and Mamdani appeared friendly as…