(CNN) \u2014 President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to host New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani Friday in the Oval Office, the first face-to-face meeting for the two politicians since Mamdani was elected earlier this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cCommunist Mayor of New York City, Zohran \u2018Kwame\u2019 Mamdani, has asked for a meeting,\u201d Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform<\/a>. \u201cWe have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st. Further details to follow!\u201d<\/p>\n Dora Pekec, a spokesperson for the mayor-elect, confirmed the meeting in a statement, saying, \u201cAs is customary for an incoming mayoral administration, the Mayor-elect plans to meet with the President in Washington to discuss public safety, economic security and the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n Shortly before Trump announced the meeting, Mamdani confirmed his camp had reached out to arrange a meeting with the president in an interview with MS NOW.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did reach out to the White House \u2013 and my team reached out because of a commitment that I made to New Yorkers, that I would be willing to meet with anyone and everyone, so long as it was to the benefit 8.5 million people who call the city home and their struggle to afford the most expensive city United States of America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n A meeting between Trump and Mamdani would cap off months of acrimony between the two New Yorkers, who have traded barbs on the stump and in the press since Mamdani\u2019s victory in the Democratic primary in June.<\/p>\n Trump has used the Democratic Socialist Mamdani as a foil, seeking to link his politics to Democrats across the country and deriding him as \u201cmy little communist\u201d in remarks from the Oval Office. He also threatened ahead of the election to take federal funding from New York City if Mamdani won.<\/p>\n For his part, Mamdani directly addressed the president in his victory speech moments after clinching the mayor\u2019s race this month<\/a>, joking, \u201cDonald Trump, since I know you\u2019re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.\u201d<\/p>\n Returning to the White House from his West Palm Beach home Sunday, Trump teased a meeting with Mamdani, telling reporters at Joint Base Andrews, \u201cThe mayor of New York, I will say, would like to meet with us, and we\u2019ll work something out. But he, he would like to come to Washington and meet. And we\u2019ll work something out. We want to see everything work out well for New York.\u201d<\/p>\n