{"id":53532,"date":"2025-11-26T23:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53532\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:14:30","slug":"mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-reveals-weirdest-thing-trump-showed-him-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53532\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reveals &#8216;weirdest&#8217; thing Trump showed him at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani revealed the weirdest thing he saw during his chummy <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/23\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-says-trump-is-still-a-fascist-despot-but-claims-they-agree-on-most-important-issue-facing-nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting <\/a>with President Trump was a \u201ccoffee table book\u201d about the upcoming UFC at the White House event.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cordial nature of the summit between the democratic socialist Mamdani and Republican president on Friday surprised many political pundits \u2014 but the mayor-elect\u2019s biggest surprise came during a tour of the White House. he said during a recent talk show appearance..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was the weirdest thing he showed you?\u201d host Adam Friedland asked Mamdani during an appearance on \u201cThe Adam Friedland Show\u201d that was posted online Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani revealed the \u2018weirdest\u2019 thing he saw at the White House last week on \u2018The Adam Friedland Show.\u2019  AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had to have shown you something \u2013 one thing weird,\u201d Friedland, a comedian, added.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani described Trump taking him on a tour through the Cabinet Room, where portraits of former presidents are displayed.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is set to host a UFC fight in June of 2026.  Stephen Yang<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FDR was beautiful,\u201d Mamdani said of the image of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. \u201cWe talked about FDR for a little bit.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The most peculiar thing the mayor-elect recalled, though, was the book that was in the waiting area of the Oval Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn front of me are like, all these different coffee table books, and one of them is UFC at the White House,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yeah he\u2019s bringing it there, right?\u201d asked Friedland.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting between Trump and Mamdani was surprisingly pleasant and cordial.  Yuri Gripas\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>An Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament is set to take place on White House grounds in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/03\/sports\/conor-mcgregor-says-ufc-fight-at-white-house-is-done-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 2026<\/a> but Mamdani claimed he had \u201cno idea\u201d about the first-of-its-kind event in the pipeline, which is meant to celebrate America\u2019s 250th birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UFC President and CEO Dana White \u2014 who has been a long-time Trump supporter \u2014 has claimed the event will host about 5,000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani said he \u201cwas flipping through\u201d the book while waiting for his meeting with the President, looking at visualizations of what the octagon ring will look like on the south lawn of the White House. <\/p>\n<p>White said the UFC will spend $700,000 to replace the grass on the south lawn following next Summer\u2019s event, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/01\/ufc-to-spend-700000-replacing-white-house-lawn-after-2026-fight-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sports Business Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani revealed the weirdest thing he saw during his chummy meeting with President Trump was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,57,9,11,10,23723,58,5561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-53532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-ufc","14":"tag-us-news","15":"tag-white-house","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532","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=53532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}