Political figures and leaders from both sides of the aisle continued to react to the meeting between President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n
John Catsimatidis, the longtime Trump ally and owner of the Gristedes grocery chain, spoke Saturday morning at a turkey giveaway event in Manhattan was hosted by the Police Athletic League and Commissioner Tisch.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, I\u2019m glad he made peace with Mayor-elect Mamdani, and again, it\u2019s not the kids\u2019 fault. We\u2019re here to serve the city and give the kids a better life,\u201d Catsimatidis said.<\/p>\n
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio has experience meeting with Trump during his own time in office.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Trump has actually a lot of respect for Mamdani. As they say, game respects game,\u201d de Blasio said on CNN. \u201cI had this same exact experience. I went to meet with Trump 10 days after the 2016 election.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I learned is, if you engage Trump and you show him you\u2019re not afraid, he is actually willing to do some give and take,” de Blasio added.\u201d<\/p>\n
Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said she was skeptical of how Trump and Mamdani\u2019s different views of making the city cheaper will align.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey seemed a little too chummy in my opinion, but they seemed to find some common ground. The problem is, you know, these people who are self-proclaimed socialists, they are wolves in sheep\u2019s clothing,\u201d Malliotakis said on Fox News.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if their views of how you get to the affordability issue are really in line. Obviously one wants to implement socialist policies and price controls that we know don\u2019t work, and President Trump is doing it the right way by expanding innovation, the free market and competitiveness,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams gave his reaction to NY1 Saturday about what the meeting could mean for the city\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty shocking, I will say, pretty surprising. My belief is that it would have went well, just knowing who our mayor is. But I don\u2019t think anyone could have expected this,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrump is really a simple person, so I think he goes off of emotion, who knows \u2014 we\u2019ll wait and see. I think the proof is in the pudding. But we may have staved off what was [an] inevitability in just a few weeks. And so the longer we can stave off harmful things to our city, the better, and you have to credit the mayor-elect for that,\u201d Williams added.<\/p>\n
Kathy Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, released a statement on the meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very promising kickoff for his mayoralty and bodes well for his relationship with the city\u2019s business leaders,\u201d she said in part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Political figures and leaders from both sides of the aisle continued to react to the meeting between President…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,7448,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,43431,5227,80,13570,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-398197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115596660843808001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}