President Trump on Friday said he’s “really gotten to like” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, saying they bonded while responding to the coronavirus outbreak.

“He’s like us, he’s working very hard. But I can’t say anything bad about Mayor de Blasio because my relationship with him over the last couple of weeks has been excellent,” Trump told reporters at a White House press conference.

“I’ve spoken with Mayor de Blasio a lot in the last week,” Trump continued, gushing about the Democrat.

“We’ve helped him, I think, a lot, and I’ve really gotten to like him. I get along with him very well. Now, he wants us to do certain things, and we’ve produced. Today I spoke with him with the Secretary of Defense Esper and we had a great conversation and we’re helping him get some of the things he needs.”

Trump said that he and de Blasio didn’t know each other well before the crisis, and that they have discussed how the crisis is impacting his childhood neighborhood in Queens.

“I’ve spoken to him a lot,” Trump said. “And we’ve really had incredibly productive discussions. I’ve gotten him a lot of people, we’ve gotten him a medical center. He’s asked for at Elmhurst, I know Elmhurst hospital very well, that was an area of Queens that I grew up in, and boy you talk about an epicenter. That’s really the epicenter of the epicenter.

“That’s really something — we talked about it, as well as, you know, very close to where I grew up. And knowing it, being so familiar with it, it’s incredible to see where they have the trucks and I don’t have to go into great detail — refrigerated trucks coming up, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Trump praised the mayor a day after his senior adviser Kellyanne Conway accused de Blasio of playing a significant role in making New York the nation’s epicenter of COVID-19, with almost half of the 100,000 cases.

Asked about Conway’s assessment, Trump instead said he actually approved of de Blasio.

Before the crisis, Trump said, “We would go at it but we didn’t, I don’t know if we ever spoke other than maybe say hello a couple of times.”

Conway blasted de Blasio in a Fox News interview and also in a gaggle with reporters on the White House driveway. She faulted his reluctance to close school and businesses and his early-March encouragement that New Yorkers live life normally.

“You have a mayor saying, ‘Look at me, I’m on the subway, go out on the town’,” Conway said. “He told people through a tweet on March 2, ‘Go live your lives and go out on the town,’ and then recommended what show everybody go see… So it’s very unfortunate that we now have the spread in the whole New York metro area, which as you all know includes many parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania.”