After attacking and demonizing one another incessantly through the New York Metropolis mayoral marketing campaign, President Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani have agreed to fulfill on the White Home on Friday.
In a put up on his Reality Social website round 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Trump stated, “Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran “Kwame” Mamdani, has requested for a gathering. We’ve agreed that this assembly will happen on the Oval Workplace on Friday, November twenty first. Additional particulars to observe!”
Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Pekec confirmed that the assembly has been set and that he’ll be there.
“As 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 1 million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago,” Pekec stated.
Regardless of furiously railing in opposition to Trump on the marketing campaign path and through his victory speech on Election Night time, Mamdani on Monday stated he desires to fulfill nose to nose with the president to debate methods the 2 leaders can work collectively for the nice of the Massive Apple.
“I made a commitment … to meet with anyone and everyone so long as it was to the benefit of the 8½ million people that call the city their home, and so long as it would help to address the affordability crisis that is pushing many out of them out of this city,” Mamdani stated after serving meals to New Yorkers at a Bronx meals pantry.
Amongst different issues, the incoming mayor vowed to press Trump to keep away from chopping off Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP) meals advantages, like he did through the current authorities shutdown in his standoff with the Democrats.
In the meantime, Trump, who has mocked Mamdani as a “little Communist,” threatened to deport him to his native Uganda and warned a Mamdani mayoralty would doom the town, additionally has just lately softened his tone.
“We want to see everything work out well for New York,” he stated.
