{"id":201982,"date":"2026-04-18T21:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201982\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:08:06","slug":"obama-meets-mamdani-in-new-york-city-before-reading-to-preschoolers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201982\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before reading to preschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3NHVG5JXDZAT7H6HYC2YXIWCIM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/obama-advisers-oral-history-trump-birther-election-22bd340572d82a58e4bddc5cd395e585\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> met with New York Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-100-days-4588280d3f2cc5b369ff0ddcf3dbf29e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> for the first time on Saturday at a child care center where they read to preschoolers and led a singalong.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"A2XZKJQYLRC5HLTJ6PGREBZVGU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is also trying to build a working relationship with Republican President Donald Trump. The meeting comes just over a week after Mamdani marked his <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-100-days-5411518e2a474dc390d6095b436f8616\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">100th day in office<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[417,9,11,10,87,1211,421,80076],"class_list":{"0":"post-201982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-general-news","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-socialism","14":"tag-u-s-news","15":"tag-us-mamdani-obama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201982","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=201982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}