What to know about the Trump-Mamdani meeting:

President Trump and incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani traded compliments in a remarkable scene at the White House on Friday following their first meeting since Mamdani's election victory.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, both men called the meeting productive and said they each wanted to improve New York. "The better he does, the happier I am," the president said. Mamdani said he was "really looking forward to delivering for New Yorkers in partnership with the president on the affordability agenda."

In one particularly notable moment, the president said that "some of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have." At another point, he added that "we agree on a lot more than I would have thought. I want him to do a gr

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