Trump to meet Zohran Mamdani at White House

President Donald Trump said Wednesday night that he will meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday.

The meeting was held at the request of Mamdani, a democratic socialist who stunned the US political world by defeating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary in June and then won again against Cuomo in the general election this month.

Trump backed Cuomo in the general election at the last minute and threatened to withhold federal funds from New York if Mamdani, 34, wins.

“The communist mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has requested a meeting,” Trump said. Real Social post On Wednesday, he once again claimed that Mamdani was a communist.

“We agreed that this meeting will be held in the Oval Office on Friday, November 21. More details to come!” The Republican president wrote.

“As is customary for an incoming mayoral administration, the Mayor-elect plans to meet with the President in Washington to discuss the public safety, economic security, and affordability agenda that more than a million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago,” Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Pekec said in a statement. he said.

When meeting with Trump, Mamdani said during an interview on MS Now’s “All in with Chris Hayes”: “I want to talk openly with the president about what it really means to advocate for New Yorkers and how New Yorkers are struggling to get by in the city.”

“The cost of living is something I hear over and over again from New Yorkers about why they voted for Donald Trump,” Mamdani said.

“And that’s just something that’s been going on for the last few months of this year, where we’re hearing about child care concerns, rent concerns, Con Ed concerns, even busing concerns.”