Presidential adviser Dick Morris told Newsmax on Friday that President Donald Trump’s restrained approach in his White House meeting with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani earlier in the day reflects a deliberate strategy to keep tensions low, while Mamdani faces intensifying political and financial pressure.
The meeting had been expected to produce a political confrontation.
Mamdani had called Trump a “despot” in his election night speech, and the president’s spokeswoman previewed the visit as a “communist coming to the White House.”
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