{"id":352068,"date":"2026-09-21T01:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352068\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T01:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:32:18","slug":"trump-and-mamdani-plan-to-meet-in-new-york-during-the-presidents-upcoming-un-visit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352068\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Mamdani Plan to Meet in New York During the President&#8217;s Upcoming UN Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting is scheduled for Monday and at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence, according to Anna Bahr, Mamdani\u2019s communications director.<\/p>\n<p>Bahr said the two will discuss issues affecting the city and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>ers. The White House confirmed the meeting will take place but did not offer more details. <\/p>\n<p>But Trump has often been warm to Mamdani and seemed charmed by the young mayor. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-zohran-mamdani-mayor-meeting-1770204af103afa00ee9b5d97cd401c7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first meeting after Mamdani\u2019s election<\/a> was quite cordial, with Trump saying at the White House that the then-mayor-elect would \u201csurprise some conservative people.\u201d The Republican president had called Mamdani a \u201c100% Communist Lunatic\u201d during the 2025 campaign. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-housing-3835daca395dbe46c2f3da2433ec24f4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">During a February meeting<\/a>, Mamdani gave Trump a mock New York Daily News front page that said \u201cTrump to City: Let\u2019s Build.\u201d That was riff on the famous front-page headline from 1975, \u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2015\/10\/29\/ford-to-city-drop-dead-in-1975\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD<\/a>,\u201d referring to President Gerald Ford\u2019s promise to veto financial assistance to the city.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani\u2019s aides said at the time that it was meant to show Trump the reaction and support that new federal investments in housing could have in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>The Month in Photos: Sept. 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/september-18-pyss-w02.jpg\" alt=\"Judith Cabrera and her daughter, April, attend a vigil for the victims of a fatal SUV-Metro bus collision and the subsequent crash of a TV news helicopter covering it in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The meeting is scheduled for Monday and at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence, according to Anna Bahr,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118,63353,59691,59690,12246,416,5130,9,10,56,63,65,64,3206,87,1211,421],"class_list":["post-352068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-associated-press","tag-collections-political","tag-collections-top-news","tag-collections-us","tag-communism","tag-elections","tag-legislation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-political-news","tag-politics","tag-socialism","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352068","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=352068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}