{"id":203239,"date":"2026-04-20T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:33:19","slug":"video-obama-and-mamdani-sing-with-kids-during-first-meeting-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203239\/","title":{"rendered":"Video. Obama and Mamdani sing with kids during first meeting in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Barack Obama met New York mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a child care centre in New York. <\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The pair read &#8216;Alone and Together&#8217; to preschoolers and led a singalong, including &#8216;Wheels on the Bus&#8217;. Children replied with &#8216;Soda Pop&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>The visit came just over a week after Mamdani marked 100 days in office. They did not take questions from reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, a leading Democratic voice, has offered to act as a sounding board for Mamdani, 34, whose agenda focuses on affordability and support for working families. <\/p>\n<p>The mayor has also met Donald Trump twice since his election, though tensions have grown. Trump recently criticised Mamdani&#8217;s policies and raised the prospect of cutting federal funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former president Barack Obama met New York mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80420,80416,36738,9,24,55,54,56,80417,80421,36739,80419,80423,36741,80418,80422,36740],"class_list":{"0":"post-203239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-id11900","9":"tag-id4395","10":"tag-id447","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-slugbarack-obama","17":"tag-slugdonald-trump","18":"tag-slugusa","19":"tag-titlebarack-obama","20":"tag-titledonald-trump","21":"tag-titleusa","22":"tag-urlsafevaluebarack-obama","23":"tag-urlsafevaluedonald-trump","24":"tag-urlsafevalueusa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203239","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=203239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}