Trump and Mamdani to meet Friday at White House

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

11/19/2025 09:53 PM EST


President Donald Trump has agreed to meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for the first time at the White House on Friday, an unexpected sit-down with the Democratic socialist whose election he opposed. Trump announced the meeting in a social media post late Wednesday.

The president urged his hometown’s voters to back Mamdani’s opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and has repeatedly attacked Mamdani in public statements. “Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec said the mayor and president would discuss public safety, economic security and “the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago.”

On Monday, Mamdani told reporters he reached out to the White House to set up a meeting with Trump to discuss affordability, a central tenant of his campaign. In an interview on MS NOW Friday evening, Mamdani said he plans to remind the president of his campaign pledge to lower costs.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/19/trump-and-mamdani-to-meet-friday-at-white-house-00661304

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I fully expect an "ambush", like what he did to Zelenskyy, after the usual "handshake yank".

[orangecrush]

1. Why would Mamdani agree to this???

[dhol82]

3. I think Mamdani feels he can hold his own

He’s a smart man and aware of the pitfalls. I just hope he doesn’t hold back.
Never forget Macron’s handshake.

[NJCher]

4. He has said

He will do what he needs to get the cost of living down for New Yorkers.

[VTderry]

12. My first thought was "I hope Mamdani is training his right arm

in preparation for Trump's inevitable yankshake."

[OC375]

2. Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

I don’t see much good coming out of this, but who knows?

[NJCher]

5. Personally, I wouldn't bother

Trump is on the ropes and even if he wasn’t, it’s just an opportunity for him to exhibit more crude, insulting behavior.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump is trying to steal a political bandwagon

Hope Mamdani invites Trump to tour a few NYC grocery stores. The pics would be for the record books.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "Hope Mamdani invites Trump to tour a few NYC grocery stores."

The only place that native-born New Yorker from Queens will go into is a McDonald's (or perhaps a KFC)!

[OC375]

9. Grocery Stores?

Has Trump ever even physically been inside a grocery store? His head will explode if he ever hears about “bodegas”!

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I imagine it would be similar to this -

And Poppy was 68 at the time! 45 is just over a decade older!

[OC375]

14. Exactly!

[IronLionZion]

10. I love when MAGAts try to downplay the significance of NYC mayor

iTs noT LikE hE's ThE pReSIdEnt!

[Scrivener7]

13. Unforced error.

[betsuni]

15. And just like that, meeting with Trump to at least try to influence him isn't evidence of being a right-wing

sea monster paling around best friend Trump for fun or "caving" or normalizing or being complicit, who everyone has to reassure each other in comment sections they hate hate hate hate hate that horrible sea monster too forever and ever.

When the benefit of the doubt is given, a meeting is just a meeting.