Mamdani earned a historic victory on Election Day earlier this month. His campaign propelled him to be one of the youngest mayors in New York City\u2019s history, the first Muslim to hold the position and the first outspoken democratic socialist, as he generated high voter turnout in both the primary and general elections. <\/p>\n
Mamdani, who ran on lowering the cost of living for New Yorkers, also pushed back against Trump throughout his campaign and in his victory speech. He directly called out the president in his remarks, after Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from the city if Mamdani won.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Donald Trump, since I know you\u2019re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,\u201d Mamdani, the former state assemblyman, said during his speech on election night. <\/p>\n
While the two have traded barbs online and from afar, the meeting Friday is being seen as the first step to building some sort of relationship between the two leaders. <\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the White House task force on the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington. | Evan Vucci, Associated Press <\/p>\n
Mamdani appeared on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, on Wednesday evening after Trump announced their planned meeting. He confirmed that his transition team reached out to the White House to arrange the meeting on Friday. <\/p>\n
The mayor-elect said the meeting is due to a commitment he made to New Yorkers that he\u2019d be \u201cwilling to meet with anyone and everyone, so long as it was to the benefit of the 8.5 million people who call the city home and their struggle to afford the most expensive city in the United States of America.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to speak plainly to the president about what it means to actually stand up for New Yorkers and the way in which New Yorkers are struggling to afford this city,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cAnd frankly, cost of living is something that I heard time and time again from New Yorkers about why they voted for Donald Trump.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mamdani was also asked about the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement efforts and what that means for the millions of immigrants living in New York City. He said he would \u201cclose the door\u201d on outgoing Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 decision to allow the New York Police Department to carry out the administration\u2019s immigration enforcement plans. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is time to have a mayor of the city who recognizes the risk is a present day one and will stand up for each and everyone one of the 3 million immigrants who call the city home. I\u2019m one of them, and I understand that an attack on any New Yorker is an attack on the entirety of the city,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Leading up to the New York City mayoral election, Trump called Mamdani an extremist for his democratic socialist views and campaign promises. In a last-minute move, Trump endorsed Mamdani\u2019s closest rival in the race, independent candidate and former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The president urged Republicans to back Cuomo in the hopes that Mamdani would be defeated. <\/p>\n
The effort was unsuccessful, as Mamdani\u2019s victory was called just hours after polls closed. He secured the win with 50.4% of the vote compared to Cuomo\u2019s 41.6%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump shared Wednesday that he will be meeting New York City\u2019s incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-46412","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-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news","13":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46412","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=46412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}