The Trump–Mamdani White House meeting.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, President Donald Trump hosted New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) at the White House, where they met in private before answering questions in the Oval Office. Despite sharp mutual criticism in recent months, Trump and Mamdani were notably cordial, expressing a shared desire to address cost-of-living and safety issues in New York City. The president in particular surprised some observers by complimenting the mayor-elect and expressing optimism about his incoming administration.
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| 0:28.0 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Donald Trump-Zoran Mamdani meeting at the White House. |
| 0:36.3 | Happened on Friday afternoon right before Marjorie Taylor |
| 0:39.6 | Green and now she was resigning from Congress. It was a crazy Friday here, a tangle, |
| 0:44.9 | just a wild way to end the week. I actually missed the Marjorie Taylor Green news because it happened, |
| 0:51.3 | you know, I'm offline for Shabbat every Friday to Saturday night. And so |
| 0:55.2 | it was insane to come back to that. I actually found out about it on Saturday. Somebody told |
| 0:59.8 | me in person, a friend of mine, and like, it took some self-control to not open my phone |
| 1:05.9 | and dive into the news. But we're going to be covering that tomorrow. Today we're covering the |
| 1:10.0 | Trump-Mam-Dani meeting, which I did watch live and was not terribly shocked by, which I'm |
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