Mamdani's Gift for Trump: A Front Page Celebrating the President
It was diplomacy through arts and crafts. It was a master class in political psychology, the specific savvy of one New Yorker who knows a son of Queens’s love of a tabloid front page.
There stood Mayor Zohran Mamdani, relatively straight-faced with just a hint of impish smile. At his side in the Oval Office sat the president of the United States, beaming.
Mr. Mamdani went to Washington on Thursday carrying props: two mock-ups of a Daily News front page, one with the famous headline that recorded President Gerald Ford’s snubbing of New York at a moment of crisis and the other with a new faux headline celebrating the current president.
“Ford to City: Drop Dead” read the headline from 1975. Thursday’s version was tailor-made for a president whose name is emblazoned on New York skyscrapers: “Trump to City: Let’s Build.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/nyregion/mamdani-trump-photo-newspapers.html
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