Trump and Mamdani to meet Friday at White House
Source: Politico
11/19/2025 09:53 PM EST
President Donald Trump has agreed to meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for the first time at the White House on Friday, an unexpected sit-down with the Democratic socialist whose election he opposed. Trump announced the meeting in a social media post late Wednesday.
The president urged his hometown’s voters to back Mamdani’s opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and has repeatedly attacked Mamdani in public statements. “Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec said the mayor and president would discuss public safety, economic security and “the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago.”
On Monday, Mamdani told reporters he reached out to the White House to set up a meeting with Trump to discuss affordability, a central tenant of his campaign. In an interview on MS NOW Friday evening, Mamdani said he plans to remind the president of his campaign pledge to lower costs.
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I fully expect an "ambush", like what he did to Zelenskyy, after the usual "handshake yank".
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He’s a smart man and aware of the pitfalls. I just hope he doesn’t hold back.
Never forget Macron’s handshake. 
Response to bucolic_frolic (Reply #6)
The only place that native-born New Yorker from Queens will go into is a McDonald's (or perhaps a KFC)! 
iTs noT LikE hE's ThE pReSIdEnt! 
