00:00So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you.
00:09Turn the volume up!
00:14They're worried that somebody like this communist from New York someday gets elected.
00:19I can't believe that's happening.
00:30In a political moment already defined by sharp contrasts and escalating ideological battles,
00:40the impending Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump
00:43and New York City's newly elected mayor, Zoran Mamdani, has captured national attention.
00:50On its surface, it is a routine consultation between federal and municipal leaders.
00:55In reality, it has become a stage for one of the most striking political confrontations
01:01in recent American memory.
01:03A former real estate mogul turned nationalist president sitting across from a democratic
01:08socialist mayor whose rise reflects a generational shift in urban politics.
01:14Trump, now in his second non-consecutive term, returned to the White House with a renewed
01:19mandate to pursue deregulation, heightened border controls and an aggressive America First
01:25economic agenda.
01:27My pledge to every family and every small business is that I will not rest until you are richer,
01:34stronger, more successful, happier, until you've gotten a piece of the American dream.
01:39His administration has taken a combative posture toward progressive leaders across the country,
01:45arguing that expanding social programs and local sanctuary policies undermine national sovereignty
01:51and drive economic instability.
01:54Will you be with Prime Minister Carney during this trip?
01:56I don't have any attention.
01:58Terrible things are happening in South Africa.
02:01The leadership is doing some terrible things.
02:06Horrible things.
02:07For Trump, such ideological disputes are not ancillary.
02:12They are foundational to his approach to governing.
02:15Mamdani, meanwhile, represents almost the opposite pole of the American political spectrum.
02:22The Queen's-born son of Ugandan Indian immigrants has, in a short time, become the face of a rising
02:28progressive movement that challenges the assumptions of neoliberal governance.
02:33New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants.
02:42And as of tonight, led by an immigrant.
02:51His mayoral platform, city-run grocery stores to counter food deserts, expansive rent regulation,
02:58increased protections for undocumented immigrants, and universal child care,
03:03has redefined the contours of what is politically possible in New York.
03:07This is an opportunity to make the case for New Yorkers.
03:11And it's a case that reflects what New Yorkers are having to live through at this time.
03:17When we speak about an affordability crisis, we're speaking about one in four New Yorkers
03:21living in poverty.
03:22One in five struggling to afford $2.90 to ride the bus.
03:27New Yorkers for whom the daily acts of life are becoming increasingly harder to afford.
03:32And that's an opportunity I have to make the case to President Trump, to the White House,
03:38as to what it means to have to suffer through this affordability crisis,
03:43and what it means to make it even more difficult to do so.
03:46His election night declaration, quoting Jawaharlal Nehru's famous Tryst with Destiny address,
03:53signalled not just a victory, but a philosophical shift.
03:57Government, he argued, must play a more direct role in shaping social equity.
04:02Now it is something that we do.
04:05Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru.
04:20A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new,
04:27when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
04:32Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new.
04:39The two men's approaches are not merely different, they are adversarial.
04:44Trump has publicly dismissed Mamdani as another socialist experiment gone wrong,
04:50and his advisers have suggested that federal funding for New York,
04:54billions in transportation, security and housing allocations,
04:57may be reconsidered if the city refuses to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
05:04You said that, you know, you called him a communist.
05:07You said that if he won, you would take drastic action against New York City.
05:11What kind of actions are you looking at, and will the ICE deportations continue?
05:16Well, I think you have to look.
05:17If he is a communist, you know there's not going to be a lot of activity.
05:20So you would need bridges and tunnels and all the different things that were being planned for New York, I think.
05:28And look, I hope New York does well, that's all I can say.
05:33I love New York, I grew up in New York, I did well in New York, always did well.
05:37And I hope New York does well.
05:41This clash is hardly unprecedented in American political history,
06:00but few past confrontations have carried such clear ideological stakes.
06:05Ronald Reagan's disputes with urban mayors in the 1980s over budget cuts,
06:09or Barack Obama's battles with conservative governors over health care and immigration policy,
06:15echo through today's moment.
06:17Yet Trump's relationship with Mamdani differs in one critical respect.
06:22He is dealing not with a seasoned establishment figure,
06:25but with a mayor whose electoral mandate was built on rejecting the very economic and political rules
06:31Trump aims to reinforce.
06:34The meeting comes at a time when the gap between federal and urban politics is widening.
06:40Cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle have increasingly embraced progressive socioeconomic policies,
06:47while federal politics, especially during Trump's tenure,
06:51have tilted toward nationalism, security concerns and market deregulation.
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