{"id":202172,"date":"2026-04-18T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:50:09","slug":"obama-meets-new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-before-reading-to-preschoolers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202172\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama meets New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani before reading to preschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former US president Barack Obama met New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a child care centre where they read to preschoolers and led a singalong.<\/p>\n

The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a week ago, is also trying to build a working relationship with Republican US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Obama and Mamdani did not take questions after reading the book Alone and Together to the children and leading a singalong of \u201cThe Wheels on the Bus\u201d.<\/p>\n

The former two-term president and standard-bearer for the Democratic Party has offered to be a sounding board for Mamdani, 34, whose star power, youth and progressive agenda has made him stand out in Democratic politics.<\/p>\n

\"PreschoolersPreschoolers swarm former US president Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani during their visit to Learning Through Play Pre-K in New York on Saturday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n

Mamdani took office in January after a campaign centred on making New York a more affordable place to live, centring his agenda on refocusing the vast power of government towards helping the city\u2019s struggling working class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US president Barack Obama met New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12674,651,153,9,24,55,54,27403,56,5561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-202172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-democratic-party","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-white-house","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202172","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=202172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}