Their barks have been a lot worse than their bites.
The metal cage match we have been anticipating on Friday between President Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani by no means materialized.
As an alternative of a nuclear fallout, the much-ballyhooed assembly was extra just like the social media video of two canines barking at one another from the alternative sides of a sliding glass door.
As quickly because the door opens the canines cease barking.
“I think you’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,” Trump stated after an Oval Workplace assembly with the person he as soon as threatened to have deported. “The better he does, the happier I am.”
OK. What’s occurring right here, and what have you ever carried out with the true president?
Trump couldn’t have been extra cordial if he have been speaking to the pope.
Did Mamdani discover one thing within the Epstein recordsdata that the remainder of us don’t find out about?
Simply days earlier, Trump was his traditional name-calling self, hurling insults at New York Metropolis’s newly elected mayor.
“Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran “Kwame” Mamdani, has requested for a gathering. We’ve agreed that this assembly will happen on the Oval Workplace on Friday, November twenty first,” Trump stated in a social media publish forward of the sit-down.
President Donald Trump meets with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 21, 2025. (Photograph by Jim WATSON / AFP through Getty Photographs)
Mamdani, after all, isn’t a communist, however somewhat unfriendly needling was by no means above Trump.
Simply ask Crooked Hillary, Pocahontas or Sleepy Joe.
In fact, we’ll by no means know what was stated earlier than the cameras got here on.
If ever there was a fly-on-the-wall second, it was earlier than the reporters stepped in, when the democratic socialist Mayor-elect of New York Metropolis met within the Oval Workplace with the MAGA Republican president of america.
There may be nothing a “Saturday Night Live” author likes greater than when a name-calling commander-in-chief sits down with a populist political upstart.
Like, what would Mamdani put on? As a result of the final time an Oval Workplace customer wore something however a go well with and tie for a sit-down with the chief of the free world, he was mercilessly ridiculed by the host.
However that by no means occurred. Trump by no means even got here shut.
He shook Mamdani’s hand. He patted his arm. He even made a joke about being referred to as a fascist.
The lovefest went each methods.
“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,” Mamdani stated.
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President Donald Trump meets with New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on Nov. 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photograph by Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
OK, OK. Sufficient already.
Within the days earlier than the assembly, Mamdani stated he was keen to work with anybody to enhance the lives of New Yorkers.
That’s attention-grabbing, as a result of the final elected New York Metropolis mayor who stated something near that was excoriated by his colleagues and accused of promoting out town.
“I communicated with the president yesterday to state that there are many issues here in the city that we want to work together with the administration to address,” Mayor Adams stated within the weeks earlier than Trump took workplace once more. “I look forward to coordinating with any and everyone to keep this great city safe.”
That, after all, was earlier than Trump’s Justice Division dropped corruption expenses towards the outgoing mayor, elevating the specter that Adams had reduce a deal to do Trump’s bidding in change for a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Mamdani has no such encumbrances, however let’s not act like he’s the primary New York Metropolis mayor to comprehend that it’s a must to go alongside to get alongside,
So, what say the critics now? Is Mamdani a traitor for not giving Trump the enterprise? Ought to he rot in hell for consorting with the enemy?
Or can we slide the door shut once more and allow them to get again to their barking?
