Trump set to meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday

President Donald Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday, the mayor’s office confirmed to NBC News.In a statement, Mamdani’s office said the two would meet at Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence, to discuss, “issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers.” The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.The president will be in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly Meeting, where he is set to deliver remarks on Tuesday and meet with global leaders.This will be at least the third public meeting between Trump and Mamdani, who have previously met at the White House.

The two first met in November 2025.The Democratic mayor, who was first elected almost a year ago, and the president have had a mostly friendly relationship, though they have at times publicly criticized each other.Prior to their first meeting, Trump described Mamdani as a “communist lunatic” but after meeting with the then-mayor-elect in the Oval Office, the president told reporters that he’d be “cheering” for Mamdani and described him as a “very rational person.” In an April interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Mamdani called his relationship with Trump, “honest, direct and productive.”He added that the pair get along as two natives of the nation’s largest city, saying, “New York City holds a very special place for him as well as for me.

We’re both from the same city.”Following their second White House meeting in February, Mamdani said he raised to the president the arrest of a Columbia University student by Department of Homeland Security agents.The student was released shortly after their meeting.Despite Trump maintaining a chummier relationship with Mamdani than other Democrats, the president has jabbed at him publicly.Earlier this year, Mamdani rolled out his plan to impose a pied-a-terre tax on New York City homeowners who maintain a non-primary residence in the city.Trump der...