{"id":581992,"date":"2025-11-20T06:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581992\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:38:13","slug":"trump-and-mamdani-to-meet-in-oval-office-on-friday-after-months-of-bickering-zohran-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/581992\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Mamdani to meet in Oval Office on Friday after months of bickering | Zohran Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has confirmed a long-awaited meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a> will happen in Washington this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political opposites who for months have antagonised each other.<\/p>\n

The sit-down, which Trump said on social media would take place on Friday in the Oval Office, could possibly represent a detente of sorts between the Republican president and Democratic rising star.<\/p>\n

Calling Mamdani by his full name \u2013 and putting the mayor-elect\u2019s middle name of Kwame in quotation marks \u2013 Trump posted on Wednesday night that Mamdani had asked for the meeting, promising: \u201cFurther details to follow!\u201d<\/p>\n

Saying it was \u201ccustomary\u201d for an incoming New York City mayor<\/a> to meet with the president, Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec said the incoming mayor planned to discuss with Trump \u201cpublic safety, economic security and the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump for months has slammed Mamdani, falsely labelling him a \u201ccommunist\u201d and predicting the ruin of his home town if the democratic socialist was elected. He also threatened to deport Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and became a naturalised American citizen in 2018, and to pull federal money from the city.<\/p>\n

But following the November elections \u2013 in which Republicans lost badly in Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as New York \u2013 Trump has spoken more about affordability<\/a>, which had been a focal point across the Democratic campaigns. Last week in a social media post he declared that the Republicans were the \u201cParty of Affordability!\u201d This comes as the president and his fellow Republicans insist the economy has never been stronger.<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters on Sunday night that he planned to meet with Mamdani<\/a>, saying \u201cwe\u2019ll work something out\u201d. On Monday, Mamdani \u2013 who officially takes office in January \u2013 said that he hoped to meet Trump, confirming that his team had reached out to the White House to set up a possible sit-down.<\/p>\n

During his victory speech<\/a> earlier this month, Mamdani, a 34-year-old who in just a few short months rose from obscure state lawmaker representing Queens to mayor-elect of the nation\u2019s biggest city, said he wanted New York to show the country how to defeat the president<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also talked about \u201cTrump-proofing\u201d New York<\/a> once he takes office in January while also promising to work with anyone, including the president, if it benefited New Yorkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has confirmed a long-awaited meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will happen in Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-581992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115580653203376632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}