I am absolutely delighted that Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate in Texas. I think it's one of the greatest things to happen to the Republican Party in a long, long time. She is the face of the Democratic Party, she and Mamdani. Good luck with that.
The Daily News first reported that Benjamin Tisch, CEO of Loews Corp., leveled the criticism at Mamdani while speaking at the Met Council's yearly gala, which supports the group's work addressing Jewish poverty. Mamdani has faced a torrent of criticism for his pro-Palestinian positions as well as previous rhetoric deemed anti-Israel or antisemitic, though in recent months, he has sought to dissuade the use of terms such as globalize the intifada.
In a one-hour session, the mayor-elect, his Chief of Staff Elle Bisgaard Church, and First Deputy Mayor-designate Dean Fuleihan met with Mayor Adams to discuss the transition between the administrations. The Mayor-elect met with the sitting Mayor to continue the work of the transition, and ensure all city services are provided without disruption through the change in leadership on Jan. 1, Monica Klein, spokesperson for the Mamdani Transition, said in a statement.
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The city's beleaguered bus riders have languished at the bottom of the political food chain for decades forced to endure the city's slowest-in-the-nation buses as the political elite has prioritized the needs of drivers, businesses, app companies and, frankly, itself. Mamdani has promised to change that, but the history of transportation suggests it will be a struggle to get the people in charge to use their power to make the streets better for cyclists, pedestrians and bus riders.
During his appearance on The Adam Friedland Show this week, Mr. Mamdani, a devout Arsenal fan, took some time out of explaining his policy agenda to remember some Arsenal guys: Sebastien Squillaci. Pascal Cygan. Marouane Chamakh. To some New Yorkers, these are simply names of former Arsenal players. But to others, they are words that, when spoken aloud by someone with Mr. Mamdani's ideological bent, make them feel unsafe in their own city.
Andrew, I was in the room, and I think that you've got to have some admiration for a candidate who ran a campaign the way he did. It was a great, great campaign. He is clearly the leader of the Democratic Party now. Praising Trump, he continued: And I think it speaks to how open-minded the president is, that he invited him into the Oval. Senator [Chuck] Schumer never endorsed him. I don't even know if he's met with him.
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who decisively beat back independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in the election to lead the city earlier this month, has named an arts and culture transition committee. The 28-member group includes curators, art dealers, journalists, and arts and nonprofit administrators. It ranges from Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon Foundation, which sits on an endowment of $7.7 billion, to Hannah Traore, who launched a 3,000-square-foot gallery on the Lower East Side not four years ago.
I don't want to hear any politicians call each other fascists, authoritarians, wannabe-dictators, communists none of that kind of rhetoric anymore. It's all dead, because if you call someone that, and then turn around and say, But I'm willing to work with them, it looks hypocritical. And there is no such thing as working with uh fascists. That's not how fascism works. Fascism isn't a normal political disagreement.
President Donald Trump has hit the pause button on deploying the National Guard to New York City, with the commander-in-chief on Saturday saying there are other American cities that need it more right now. The president's comments came a day after he welcomed Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who will be New York City's next mayor, to the White House. Trump has said previously that New York was on his list of Democrat-run cities that he would deploy the National Guard to, saying in August he would help fight crime in the Big Apple after he was done in Chicago.
We don't often use the word, shocking, here, on this show. But that is really the only fitting way to describe this headline, as we come on the air tonight. Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she is resigning from Congress. The MAGA firebrand and Georgia congresswoman explains that her very public falling out that has happened, over these last few weeks, with President Trump, was the driving factor in this decision.
President Donald Trump extolled the accuracy of what he called an old-fashioned word as he riffed about affordability and groceries during a chummy Oval Office meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Trump has been fighting a battle over affordability since the Election Day bloodbath, insisting concerns over prices are a con job, and repeatedly claiming he's already solved the issue.
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, are scheduled to meet at the White House this afternoon in an encounter between two ideologically opposed leaders with conflicting visions for the nation's largest city. The meeting marks the first face-to-face discussion between the combative Republican president and the defiant democratic socialist who secured a commanding electoral victory last month with over 50% of the vote.
The incoming democratic socialist mayor whom Trump has repeatedly belittled the democratic socialist as a communist since winning the Democratic Primary in June told reporters during a City Hall Park news conference on Nov. 20 that he requested the Oval Office sit-down earlier this week. Mamdani sought the meeting to discuss skyrocketing costs in the five boroughs and balancing public safety with steps taken by this administration.
Tisch immediately brought a steady, competent hand to One Police Plaza. She shook up the brass and removed chiefs and other high-ranking officials tied to scandal and corruption. She worked with Mayor Adams to tackle the staffing crisis head-on, reforming the recruitment process to help address the biggest exodus of NYPD officers in more than 30 years. Most importantly, Tisch helped lead the NYPD to historic drops this year in murders, shootings and other violent crimes.
Zohran Mamdani was elected in part because he made getting around the Big Apple like the rest of us - by foot, bike, bus, and train - a central part of his appeal, and a key point of contrast between him and Gotham's political establishment. And if you listen to that same establishment, all that's going to change for the political novice. But does it have to?
O'Leary himself shared the Fox Business clip along with a summary of what he said, expecting "free everything." He added, "If you campaign on 'money for nothing and chicks for free,' you'd think the busses(sp) would at least be comped. Great song. Terrible policy." The businessman was referencing the song 'Money for Nothing' by Dire Straits, which he also brought up in the Varney & Co. interview. Varney commended O'Leary on his sarcasm, to which the Shark Tank star responded, "I'm not kidding. I want free."
