President Trump revealed he will meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for an in-person meeting in the Oval Office on Friday.
“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. Further details to follow!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday evening.
Mamdani plans to discuss his quest for greater affordability and public safety agenda with Trump during the meeting, according to his spokesperson.
“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,” a spokesperson for Mamdani told The Post.
Mamdani, who will be sworn in on Jan. 1, confirmed on Monday that he approached the president for a sit-down.
“My team reached out to the White House to fulfill a commitment I made to New Yorkers over the course of this campaign, a commitment that showed a willingness to meet with anyone and everyone, so long as it was to the benefit of the eight and a half million people that call the city their home,” Mamdani said at an unrelated Bronx event.
Trump also signaled that a face-to-face discussion with the lefty mayor-elect was in the cards.
“The mayor of New York, I will say, would like to meet with us,” the president said Sunday before flying back to Washington after a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
“We’ll work something out,” Trump added. “But he would like to come to Washington.”
The meeting comes after months of Trump deriding Mamdani as “my little communist” and predicting the downfall of New York City if the democratic socialist was elected mayor.
Trump has also threatened to pull government funding from the city and explore the possibility of a federal takeover.
Mamdani, 34, has not shied away from criticism of Trump either, referring to the president as a “despot” in his victory speech earlier this month.
“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power,” Mamdani told the crowd after his mayoral win.
“This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,” he said.
Meetings between Big Apple mayors-elect and presidents are often a routine part of mayoral transition festivities.
Mayor Eric Adams met with former President Joe Biden in July 2021, and Bill de Blasio had a sit-down with former President Barack Obama in 2013.
