{"id":209199,"date":"2026-06-03T05:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209199\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:34:25","slug":"obama-meets-mamdani-in-new-york-city-before-reading-to-preschoolers-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209199\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Meets Mamdani In New York City Before Reading To Preschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former President Barack Obama<\/a> met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> for the first time on Saturday at a child care center where they read to preschoolers and led a singalong.<\/p>\n

The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is also trying to build a working relationship with Republican President Donald Trump<\/a>. The meeting comes just over a week after Mamdani marked his 100th day in office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obama and Mamdani did not take questions after reading the book \u201cAlone and Together\u201d to the children and leading a singalong of \u201cThe Wheels on the Bus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former two-term president and standard-bearer for the Democratic Party<\/a> has offered to be a sounding board<\/a> for Mamdani, 34, whose star power, youth and progressive agenda has made him stand out in Democratic politics.<\/p>\n

Mamdani took office<\/a> in January after a campaign centered on making New York City a more affordable place to live, centering his agenda on refocusing the vast power of government toward helping the city\u2019s struggling working class.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s meeting with Obama comes after he has already met twice with Trump<\/a> at the White House in November and February to discuss issues affecting New York City.<\/p>\n

Despite those friendly meetings, their relationship has shown signs of strain recently, with Trump posting on Truth Social<\/a> Thursday that Mamdani was \u201cDESTROYING New York\u201d with his taxing policies and threatened to pull federal funding for the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25086,238,50,128,130,129,44,18151],"class_list":["post-209199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-barack-obama","tag-new-york-city","tag-politics","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-u-s-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}