President Donald Trump called out NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in his State of the Union address, then talked about speaking with the Democrat often. Asked about it the next day, Mamdani also said the two talk regularly.
Neither mentioned having a meeting at the White House the day after that.
And yet, the once-often-at-odds duo is doing just that in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, according to two people familiar with his plans. It wasn’t immediately clear what the two would discuss in the unannounced meeting.
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mamdani said the two men had a “productive meeting” on housing and posted a photo of himself and the president inside the Oval Office.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump pose for photo in Oval Office on Thursday, Feb. 26.
It comes just after the president took a zinger at Mamdani in his annual address to America, slighting him in a comment about ID requirements for city snow removal jobs but also calling him a “nice guy.”
“I’d like to say, ‘Thank you,'” Mamdani said Wednesday. Incidentally, Trump gave the program national press.
The two have mostly taken a mostly agreeable approach since meeting at the White House in November, following Trump’s insult-ridden yet failed campaign to keep the Democrat from office. They discussed housing, among other matters related to the future of New York City, during that meeting, officials said.