Trump: We're Going to Help Mamdani Make Everybody's Dream Come True

Thank you very much. We've uh just had a great meeting, a really good, very productive meeting. We have one thing in common. We want this uh city of ours that we love to do very well. And I wanted to congratulate the mayor. He really ran an incredible race against, you know, a lot of smart people starting with the early primaries against some very tough people, very smart people. and he beat him and he beat him easily and I congratulated him and we talked about some things in uh very strong comment like housing and getting housing built and uh food and prices and the price of oil is coming way down that anything I do is going to be good for New York. If I can get prices down it's good for New York and we've got them down way down from from last year. We have uh as you know I've been saying to a lot of people Walmart said that Thanksgiving this year is exactly 25% less than last year. So that's good for New York, good for everybody. But I just want to congratulate I think you're going to have hopefully a really great mayor. The better he does, the happier I am. I will say there's no difference in party. There's no difference in anything. And we're going to be helping him uh to make everybody's dream come true. having a strong and very safe New York and congratulations, Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you, Mr. President. >> Thank you. >> I appreciate it. Please, >> I appreciated the the meeting with the president and as he said, it was a productive meeting focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City, and the need to deliver affordability to New Yorkers, the 82 million people who call our city their home, who are struggling to afford life in the most expensive city in the United States of America. We spoke about rent. We spoke about groceries. We spoke about utilities. We spoke about the different ways in which people are being pushed out. And I appreciated the time with the president. I appreciated the conversation. I look forward to working together to deliver that affordability for New Yorkers. >> Thank you very much. Any questions, please? >> President Trump. Stephen Nelson from the New York Post. I've got a question for you and then also one for May. Uh for you, uh you've referred to Mr. Maldani as a communist. Could you describe why you feel that way? And also, will you do anything to stop him from arresting Prime Minister Netanyahu if he visits New York? >> Well, we didn't discussed your second part of the question. And on your first part, I mean, he's got views that a little out there, but who knows? I mean, we're going to see what works or he's going to change also. We all change. I changed a lot. Change a lot from when I first came to office. It's now quite a while ago. It's quite a while. My first term was great. We had a the greatest economy in the history of our country. We're doing even better now. We're doing much better now than we did even the first term. And I can tell you some of my views have changed. And we we had discussions on some things. I'm not going to discuss what they were, but uh that I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think I think he's going to be I think he is going to surprise some conservative people actually and some very liberal people. He won't surprise him because they already like him. >> And uh Mr. month. Uh it sounds like you had a productive discussion uh but just days ago you referred to President Trump as a desperate who betrayed the country. You said you'd be his worst nightmare and accused him of having a fascist agenda. Um are you planning to retract any of these remarks in order to uh improve your relationship? >> I think both President Trump and I we are very clear about our positions and our views. And what I really appreciate about the president is that the meeting that we had focused not on places of disagreement, which there are many, and also focused on the shared purpose that we have in serving New Yorkers. And frankly, that is something that could transform the lives of the 8 and a half million people who are currently struggling under a cost of living crisis with one in four living in poverty. And the meeting came back again and again to what it could look like to lift those New Yorkers out of struggle and start to deliver them a city that they could do more than just struggle to afford it, but actually start to live in it. >> And I've been called much worse than it does bud. So it's not it's not that insulting. Maybe I think he'll change his mind after we get to working