Trump wrote: Zahran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, requested a meeting and we agreed that this meeting will be held on Friday in the Oval Office. Trump added: More details of this meeting will be announced in the next few hours. Trump, who had targeted New York City Mayor Zahran Mamdani with verbal attacks […]
Trump wrote: Zahran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, requested a meeting and we agreed that this meeting will be held on Friday in the Oval Office.
Trump added: More details of this meeting will be announced in the next few hours.
Trump, who had targeted New York City Mayor Zahran Mamdani with verbal attacks for months, had previously announced his willingness to meet with this democratic politician in a new twist.
This meeting will be held after, in one of the most unexpected developments in the US election, 34-year-old Mamdani and the emerging figure of the leftist New York, defeated Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of the state, to become the mayor of the largest city in America.
Mamdani’s transition team confirmed Wednesday that the meeting will take place in Washington. His spokeswoman, Dora Pakesh, said the mayor-elect plans to discuss public safety, economic security and the spending plan — voted for by more than a million New Yorkers — with Trump during the meeting, as is usual for new city governments.
In the past months, Trump repeatedly targeted Mamdani and called him a “communist”; The accusation, which according to the American media has no real basis, but is part of Trump’s political attacks on his leftist rivals.
The US president had even threatened to cut off key federal funding for New York City if Mamdani won, and had made controversial comments about his citizenship – who was born in Uganda and later became an American citizen.
Trump’s meeting with Mamdani can be seen as a reconciliation between the Republican president and the political star of the Democrats.
“I think the mayor of New York would like to meet with us,” Trump told reporters on Sunday night back in Washington. We will reach an agreement.”
He added: “We want everything to go well for New York.”
