After months of trading insults, U.S. President Donald Trump and incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani smiled at each other, swapped compliments and pledged to collaborate on tackling crime and affordability in the nation's biggest city at an unexpectedly friendly meeting at the White House on Friday.

The president and the New York City mayor-elect have traded barbs over the past year.

Similar, but different: Trump, a 79-year-old Republican, and Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, are diametrically opposed in style and substance. However, both are New Yorkers with ardent supporters — who ran winning campaigns that addressed affordability.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he plans to center an upcoming meeting with Republican President Donald Trump on how the two opposing leaders could work to make the city a more affordable place to live.

President Trump met with the new mayor-elect for New York City, Zohran Mamdani, on Friday at the White House. The president said he was surprised by how much he agreed with the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist.

President Donald Trump lavished praise on New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and was quick to downplay the progressive Democrat’s harshest criticism of him during their meeting in the Oval Office.