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Trump to meet with Mamdani Monday
The leaders got along famously well last year. This meeting, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, could be more tense.
President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met in the Oval Office on November 21, 2025. Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump plans to meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion Monday, as the city welcomes world leaders for the U.N. General Assembly.
“The meeting will focus on issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers,” City Hall said in confirming the meeting to City & State. A spokesperson for the mayor, Dora Pekec, declined to provide any further details regarding topics of discussion or logistics for the gathering.
But there would seem to be issues of mutual interest that go beyond just New York. The Monday meeting at the mayor’s residence on the Upper East Side comes just days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver a Thursday speech at the U.N.
“When it comes to the president, we continue to have a conversation about how best to deliver for this city,” Mamdani said last week, when asked whether he planned to meet with Trump during the U.N. General Assembly. “That is a conversation that has been done in person, it’s been done over the phone, and it will continue so long as either of us have the ability to deliver for the city.”
Mamdani has previously met Trump at the White House – both before he took office in late November 2025, and soon after taking office, in late February. The visits featured a remarkably cordial tone, given their opposing politics and Mamdani’s campaign vow to be “Trump’s worst nightmare.” Coming out of those earlier meetings, City Hall has suggested that Mamdani’s more diplomatic, rather than antagonistic, approach with Trump in office has been advantageous for the city.
“We have one thing in common,” Trump said after the November meeting. “We want this city of ours that we love to do very well.”