After months of racist smears and outright lies about communism and terrorism, President Donald Trump heaped praise on New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during their Oval Office meeting on Friday.

“He really ran an incredible race,” said Trump, predicting that Mamdani would be “a really great mayor”—a 180-degree turn from his claims in recent weeks that the democratic socialist’s win was terrible for New York and that he would act to withhold federal funding to the city after the Democrat’s decisive win.

Trump even said he was happy to hear that one in 10 Trump voters in New York voted for Mamdani.

For his part, Mamdani said his discussions with Trump were productive.

“We spoke about rent, we spoke about utilities, we spoke about the different ways in which people are being push

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