Trump to meet with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at White House on Friday

President Donald Trump said connected Wednesday nighttime that helium volition conscionable with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani astatine the White House connected Friday.

The gathering comes astatine the petition of Mamdani, a antiauthoritarian socialist who stunned the U.S. governmental satellite successful June by beating erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo successful the Democratic mayoral primary, and past cruising to triumph implicit Cuomo again successful the wide predetermination this month.

Trump astatine the past infinitesimal endorsed Cuomo successful the wide predetermination and threatened to withhold national funds from New York if the 34-year-old Mamdani won.

"Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran 'Kwame' Mamdani, has asked for a meeting," Trump said successful a Truth Social post connected Wednesday successful which helium again falsely claimed that Mamdani is simply a communist.

"We person agreed that this gathering volition instrumentality spot astatine the Oval Office connected Friday, November 21st. Further details to follow!" the Republican president wrote.

Mamdani's spokesperson, Dora Pekec, successful a statement, said, "As is customary for an incoming mayoral administration, the Mayor-elect plans to conscionable with the President successful Washington to sermon nationalist safety, economical information and the affordability docket that implicit 1 cardinal New Yorkers voted for conscionable 2 weeks ago."

Mamdani, during an interrogation connected MS Now's "All successful with Chris Hayes," said that erstwhile helium meets with Trump, "I privation to conscionable talk plainly to the president astir what it means to really basal up for New Yorkers, and the mode successful which New Yorkers are struggling to spend the city."

"Cost of surviving is thing that I heard clip and clip again from New Yorkers astir wherefore they voted for Donald Trump," Mamdani said.

"And this is thing that is lone continued successful the past fewer months of this year, wherever we're proceeding astir kid attraction concerns, rent concerns, Con Ed concerns, adjacent conscionable getting connected the bus."