{"id":146656,"date":"2026-02-26T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146656\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:28:08","slug":"mamdani-talks-housing-with-trump-in-secret-dc-trip-flatters-him-with-photoshopped-nyc-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146656\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani talks housing with Trump in secret DC trip, flatters him with photoshopped NYC newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani <\/a>snuck off to Washington, DC, Thursday to talk housing with President Trump \u2014 and brought along a photoshopped version of a New York City newspaper in an attempt to flatter him.<\/p>\n

The democratic socialist mayor and the president had a closed-door meeting at the White House that Hizzoner described as \u201cproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon,\u201d he posted on X<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to building more housing in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with President Trump in the Oval Office to discuss ways to build new housing in New York City. NYC Mayor’s Office<\/p>\n

Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politics<\/a><\/p>\n

Mamdani attached a seemingly heavily edited photo showing him standing at the Resolute Desk next to a seated, beaming Trump, who held a fake front page with the headline: \u201cTRUMP TO CITY: LET\u2019S BUILD\u201d and his portrait.<\/p>\n

\u201cBacks new era of housing,\u201d the bogus newspaper cover blared. \u201cTrump delivers 12,000+ homes. Most since 1973.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his other hand, Trump held up the famous \u201cFORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD\u201d October 1975 headline from the since-depleted New York Daily News.<\/p>\n

The Oval Office sit-down \u2014\u00a0the mayor\u2019s second since his election in November\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 touched on a \u201cvariety of housing projects\u201d that could amount to a \u201chistoric investment\u201d in new housing in the Big Apple, sources briefed on the agenda said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani made an unannounced trip to Washington, DC, on Thursday to meet with President Trump, The Post has learned. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

City Hall made no mention that the mayor was leaving the Big Apple, with nothing on his public schedule for the day. The mayor\u2019s reps confirmed the planned meeting after The Post first broke news of the secret trip.<\/p>\n

A source said Mamdani flew to DC to help \u201cput icing\u201d on a proposed bill by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren that would curb Wall Street\u2019s ability to buy housing.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mamdani, wearing a black hat and mask, was spotted with his entourage Thursday morning riding in the back of a Delta plane. He was joined by a top adviser, Morris Katz<\/a>, who has no formal role in City Hall.<\/p>\n

Trump on Tuesday night gave Hizzoner a shoutout during the State of the Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new communist mayor of New York City, I think he\u2019s a nice guy, actually,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI speak to him a lot. Bad policy, but nice guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president also made a point during his annual address to highlight his focus on creating more housing for Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLast month I signed executive order to ban large Wall Street investment firms from buying up, in the thousands, single family homes \u2026 And now I\u2019m asking Congress to make that ban permanent, because homes for people \u2014 really, that\u2019s what we want,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump on Tuesday night gave the democratic socialist a shoutout during the State of the Union. Gripas Yuri\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want homes for people, not for corporations. Corporations are doing just fine,\u201d the president added, echoing an issue the left has often railed about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The commander-in-chief and young Big Apple mayor have been talking often since the two met face to face in DC last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

Their chummy first White House meeting in November shocked the political world, with insiders dubbing it the start of a \u201cbromance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources said Hizzoner would be meeting Trump at the White House in the afternoon. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Trump at one point even gave Mamdani cover when the then-mayor-elect was pressed by reporters about his prior attacks on the president.<\/p>\n

The pair also discussed housing issues at the time, with Mamdani\u2019s team calling the meeting \u201cproductive.\u201d <\/p>\n

The mayor\u2019s chief of staff, Elle Bisgaard-Church<\/a>, told The Post after that Mamdani and Trump spoke about how the city can cut red tape to fast-track housing development.<\/p>\n

Bisgaard-Church said Trump was notably interested in Expedited Land Use Review Procedure (EULER), a 90-day streamlined approval process for affordable housing projects with little zoning adjustments.<\/p>\n

The typical process for approval \u2014Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, aka ULURP \u2014 can drag out past seven months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president felt very interested in a kind of common sense approach to reduce onerous burdens on the housing and development owners, actually,\u201d Bisgaard-Church said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani snuck off to Washington, DC, Thursday to talk housing with President Trump \u2014 and brought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[302,153,57,9,24,55,54,14051,56,87,60332,58,8093,5561,82],"class_list":["post-146656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city-hall","tag-donald-trump","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-us-news","tag-washington-dc","tag-white-house","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}