It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

So it's been five days now since the surprisingly warm public appearance by Mayor-elect Mom

Donnie and President Trump

that seemed to represent a truce in Trump calling Mob Doni a communist

and Mam-Dani being very active in calling Trump a fascist.

But I say truce because that means an agreement between opponents to stop fighting for the moment.

It's not the same as a peace treaty, right? You've probably heard

key sound bites by now, like the president saying, we agree on a lot more than I would have

thought, and that some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have. Trump said that.

But don't tell Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent,

who was back on CNBC already yesterday, saying this. He is clearly the leader of the Democratic Party

now, and I think it speaks to how open-minded the president is that he invited him into the

Oval. Senator Schumer never endorsed him.

I don't even know if he's met with him.

And President Trump wants the best for New Yorkers.

I can tell you, my impression of the mayor elect is he's a young man with a lot of old

ideas that have never worked.

Scott Besson.

So maybe they're already creeping back to the message for next year's midterms that

Mamdani is a dangerous radical socialist who's clearly the leader of the Democratic Party right now,

as Bessent put it there, leader of the Democratic Party. On the Mamdani side of the equation,

he elaborated on Monday on one of the things that he and the President disagreed about in the closed-door portion of their meeting.

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