Trump will meet Mamdani the incoming mayor of New York City
Trump will meet Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York.
President Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York, will meet at the White House on Friday following months of insulting each other during the city's most recent election.
Earlier this month, Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist, defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo by nine points to win the mayoral election in New York City. He was not well-known outside of New York prior to the election, but he is now well-known across the country.
The "communist mayor" had asked for the meeting, which would be held in the Oval Office, according to a statement from Trump.
The meeting with Trump, according to the mayor-elect's spokesperson, was typical of an incoming municipal 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," spokesperson Dora Pekec stated.
Although they attended events at the White House with other mayors and officials, Mamdani's predecessors, Democrats Bill de Blasio and current Mayor Eric Adams, did not have prominent Oval Office visits with a president on their own.
The acrimony between the two-term president and swiftly rising political novice began brewing shortly after Mamdani won the Democratic primary in June.
Trump has criticised Mamdani as the Democratic Party's "communist" future and threatened to deny the biggest US metropolis billions of federal funds as a result of his win.
Trump, a native of New York, regularly depicted Mamdani as an extreme who "practically hasn't worked a day in his life" in the weeks preceding his election.
The Republican president made an odd last-minute endorsement of Cuomo, a Democrat running as an independent and Mamdani's opponent.
Mamdani mocked Trump by instructing him to "turn the volume up" on his television during his victory speech on election day.
"…AND SO IT BEGINS!" was Trump's response on his social media platform, Truth Social, a few minutes later.
Many were taken aback when Mamdani, a former state assemblyman who ran on an affordable platform in one of the priciest US cities, won the Democratic primary in New York City in June.
He has said that New York will "remain a city of immigrants" while Trump conducts his nationwide immigration crackdown, employing additional attorneys to get ready to file legal challenges.
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