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‘You’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,’ Trump said with a smile at his Friday press conference with Mamdani

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In a surprisingly friendly press conference Friday, President Donald Trump brushed off New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s past comments calling the president a “fascist” and declared that he “can do a very good job.”