Well it appears the honeymoon between President Trump and newly elected mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani is over. After Trump and Mamdani had a surprisingly positive press conference together, Mamdani has slipped back to his old ways. While appearing on NBC News Mamdani was asked if he stood by his comments of calling Trump a fascist. If you saw the press conference on Friday you would know Mamdani was asked that same question but before Mamdani could answer Trump spoke up and said it’s okay to say “yes.” Watch the moment here: Funniest. President. EVER! REPORTER TO ZOHRAN MAMDANI: “Are you affirming you think President Trump is a FASCIST?” MAMDANI: “I’ve-“ PRESIDENT TRUMP: “-that’s OK. You can just say YES. It’s easier than explaining it, I don’t mind.” *Pats Mamdani on the back* OMG pic.twitter.com/vBnM9dMi8k — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 21, 2025 The Hill reported on how Mamdani responded to the question and this time Trump wasn’t there to save him: New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) stood by his past criticisms of President Trump, even as he praised the president for their “productive” White House meeting focused on affordability. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker noted that, during his press conference with Trump on Friday, a reporter asked Mamdani whether he still believes the president is a “fascist,” a label the mayor-elect has used to describe Trump in the past. “You were about to answer. Then, President Trump sort of jumped in, and he said, quote, ‘That’s OK. You can just say yes. It’s easier than explaining it,’” Welker said in the interview. She continued: “So, Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?” Mamdani defended his response on Friday and doubled down on his position. “And after President Trump said that, I said, ‘Yes,’” Mamdani said. “That’s something that I’ve said in the past. I say it today.” But Mamdani, in the Sunday interview, was still optimistic about his potential relationship with the Republican president. “What I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement, about the politics that has brought us to this moment. And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers,” he said. Here’s Mamdani answering the question here: KRISTEN WELKER: Do you think that President Trump is a fascist? MAMDANI: That’s something that I’ve said in the past. I say it today. KRISTEN WELKER: You’ve called him a despot. Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy? MAMDANI: Everything that I’ve… pic.twitter.com/zzOu48lHSH — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 23, 2025 On Saturday, The New York Times reported President Trump has no immediate plans to send the National Guard to New York City: After the friendly White House meeting on Friday between President Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, the prospect of the National Guard being deployed to the city in the coming months seems less likely. In an interview on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Mr. Mamdani declined to say whether Mr. Trump had made a commitment not to send troops into the city. But Mr. Mamdani said he had made a strong case to the president that the National Guard was not needed and that crime was under control. “I made it very clear what we wanted to do was to deliver public safety and affordability, and the N.Y.P.D. would be the ones to do so,” Mr. Mamdani told Kristen Welker, the show’s moderator. For his part, Mr. Trump said on Saturday that he had no immediate plans to send the Guard to New York. “Right now, other places need it more,” he told reporters. “We had a very good meeting yesterday. We talked about that.” Mr. Trump did suggest that those plans could change, though. “If they need it,” he said, referring to the city’s residents. “I would do it.”