{"id":78994,"date":"2026-09-21T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-and-mamdani-appear-friendly-after-wide-ranging-meeting-at-gracie-mansion\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:55:10","slug":"trump-and-mamdani-appear-friendly-after-wide-ranging-meeting-at-gracie-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-and-mamdani-appear-friendly-after-wide-ranging-meeting-at-gracie-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Mamdani appear friendly after \u2018wide-ranging\u2019 meeting at Gracie Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican president said he hoped the democratic socialist would be a \u2018great mayor\u2019 for New York City<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump said on Monday that he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a \u201cgreat mayor\u201d 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\u2019s alleged embrace of \u201ccommunism\u201d ahead of the November midterms.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference following their closed-door meeting at Gracie Mansion, Trump and Mamdani appeared friendly as they have in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/21\/trump-mamdani-white-house-new-york\">previous<\/a> meetings. Mamdani said he and Trump held a \u201cwide-ranging\u201d discussion, which touched on affordable housing and immigration, but did not offer extensive details regarding any disagreements between them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/21\/trump-and-mamdani-meeting-gracie-mansion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican president said he hoped the democratic socialist would be a \u2018great mayor\u2019 for New York City Donald Trump said on Monday that he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a \u201cgreat mayor\u201d for New York, an unusually warm assessment of the democratic socialist leader whom the president and his Republican allies have spent months holding &#8230; <a title=\"Trump and Mamdani appear friendly after \u2018wide-ranging\u2019 meeting at Gracie Mansion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-and-mamdani-appear-friendly-after-wide-ranging-meeting-at-gracie-mansion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump and Mamdani appear friendly after \u2018wide-ranging\u2019 meeting at Gracie Mansion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}