Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he still believed President Donald Trump was a “fascist” after their Oval Office meeting.

Host Kristen Welker said, “In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is in fact a fascist, a word that you’ve used in the past. You were about to answer. Then, President Trump sort of jumped in. And he said, ‘That’s okay. You can just say yes. It’s easier than explaining it.’ So, Mr. Mayor-Elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?”

Mamdani said, “And after President Trump said that, I said, ‘yes,'”

Welker said, “So you do?”

Mamdani said, “That’s something that I’ve said in the past, I say it today. And I think what I

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