{"id":202619,"date":"2026-04-19T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202619\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:46:07","slug":"obama-and-mamdani-sing-the-wheels-on-the-bus-with-new-york-preschoolers-video-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202619\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Mamdani sing The Wheels on the Bus with New York preschoolers \u2013 video | Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/barack-obama\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> for the first time on Saturday at a childcare centre where the former Democratic US president and the mayor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> read to preschoolers and led a sing-along. Obama and Mamdani led the kids in singing The Wheels on the Bus and the children responded with the song Soda Pop from KPop Demon Hunters. The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a week earlier, is trying to build a working relationship with the Republican president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barack Obama met Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare centre where the former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-202619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202619","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=202619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}