President Trump took off the table the possibility of slashing federal funding for New York and vowed to actually be “a big help” to the city after an extraordinarily cordial meeting with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday.

The sympatico tone marked a shocking turnaround for Trump, who has for months smeared Mamdani as “a communist” and threatened to cut federal funding for New York, flood the city with ICE agents and take other punitive steps after the incoming mayor’s sworn in Jan. 1.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon after a more than hour-long sitdown with Mamdani, Trump said he’s no longer looking to make good on the funding threat and admitted he was “actually surprised” by how “rational” the soon-to-be mayor is and how much they

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