{"id":204101,"date":"2026-04-21T00:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204101\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:47:06","slug":"mamdani-and-obama-lead-school-singalong-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204101\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani and Obama lead school singalong in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former President Barack Obama led a singalong at a Bronx child care center<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The joint appearance was intended to promote child care policies, a key point of Mamdani\u2019s agenda. It was held at the Learning Through Pre-K Center, which is part of the city\u2019s free preschool program.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former President Barack Obama led a singalong at a Bronx child care center on Saturday
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The joint appearance was intended to promote child care policies, a key point of Mamdani\u2019s agenda. It was held at the Learning Through Pre-K Center, which is part of the city\u2019s free preschool program
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Late last week, President Donald Trump accused the mayor of \u201cdestroying New York\u201d while criticizing a proposal he introduced with Gov. Kathy Hochul to place a new tax on second homes in the city valued at more than $5 million
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The show of support from Obama also comes when Mamdani, who constitutionally cannot run for president because he is a naturalized citizen born in Uganda, is increasingly being asked to weigh in on Democratic leadership<\/p>\n

It also served as a public display of support from the former president at a time when the mayor\u2019s relationship with the current president has appeared to sour.<\/p>\n

Late last week, President Donald Trump accused the mayor of \u201cdestroying New York\u201d while criticizing a proposal he introduced with Gov. Kathy Hochul to place a new tax on second homes in the city valued at more than $5 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, Mayor Mamdani is DESTROYING New York! It has no chance! The United States of America should not contribute to its failure,\u201d Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. \u201cIt will only get WORSE. The TAX, TAX, TAX Policies are SO WRONG. People are fleeing. They must change their ways, AND FAST. History has proven, THIS \u2018STUFF\u2019 JUST DOESN\u2019T WORK,\u201d Trump wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has brushed off the president\u2019s criticism.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The criticism is] not a surprise, given that the president has many deep policy differences, and I am not shy about writing them both publicly and privately,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Despite their deep political differences, the two New Yorkers have historically enjoyed a mostly cordial public relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have one thing in common. We want this city of ours that we love to do incredibly well,\u201d Trump said after the pair\u2019s first Oval Office meeting in November 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cordiality has mostly persisted, despite Trump having questioned the Mamdani\u2019s immigration status in the early days of his campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people are saying he\u2019s here illegally, you know, we\u2019re gonna look at everything,\u201d the president said during a July 2025 press conference.<\/p>\n

For more than a decade. Trump has falsely claimed that Obama was not born in the U.S. and therefore was legally ineligible to be president.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more I go into it, the more suspect it is,\u201d Trump told CNN in April 2011.<\/p>\n

The relationship between Obama and Mamdani pre-dates the mayor\u2019s November election<\/a> \u2014 when the former president called to offer counsel and compliment his campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spoke about the importance, in a moment such as this, where politics is often characterized by a language of darkness \u2014 the necessity of hope,\u201d the mayor said in August 2025.<\/p>\n

The show of support from Obama also comes when Mamdani, who constitutionally cannot run for president because he is a naturalized citizen born in Uganda, is increasingly being asked to weigh in on Democratic leadership.<\/p>\n

This weekend on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d the mayor remained vague when replying to questions about whether Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, of Brooklyn, should seek reelection in 2028.<\/p>\n

He spoke highly of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when asked if he would support her potentially challenging their fellow New Yorker.<\/p>\n

When asked if the Democratic Party needs a generational leadership change, the mayor criticized the current state of the party, saying it needs to more strongly demonstrate vision.<\/p>\n

Spectrum News asked Brooklynite House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries about calls for Schumer to step aside.<\/p>\n

\u201cI continue to support Leader Schumer,\u201d Jeffries stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former President Barack Obama led a singalong at a Bronx child care center on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[109,25,128,9,24,12,63,87,45797,129,131,130,27,200,58726],"class_list":{"0":"post-204101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-bronx","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-shannon-ryan","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod","22":"tag-washington-d-c-bureau"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204101","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=204101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}