New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani seemed to deflect late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's questions about his relationship with President Donald Trump, as the mayor avoided bashing him and rejected the late-night host's request to send him a selfie."Did you guys hit it off immediately or is it something that you really went into thinking, like, ‘Okay, I need to have a relationship with the President of the United States and I think the best way to do it is to charm him?' How did you do that and can you help me?" Kimmel asked Mamdani, calling his relationship with Trump "unexpected."Mamdani responded, "Sorry brother."The mayor told Kimmel he and the president had many disagreements, but agreed on how much they both love New York City.MAMDANI DESCRIBES TRUMP RELATIONSHIP AS 'HONEST' AND 'DIRECT' AMID RECENT BLOWOUTNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel during "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on September 28, 2026.(ABC/JimmyKimmelLive)"And so, from that first meeting in November of last year, I was just thinking of, ‘How can we make this meeting not about us, but about New Yorkers? How can we spend that time talking about the things that could make life in the city that little bit easier?’ And that's what it's been whether we've met at the White House or at Gracie Mansion," he said.Mamdani and the president met earlier this month at the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, despite the major policy differences the two have."The number one thing that we've been speaking about recently has been Sunnyside Yard, which is this idea for decades of building a platform over a rail yard and then building 12,000 homes.
And so, in that moment, you know, that you zoomed in on, I'm just thinking about 12,000 homes, 30,000 jobs, largest housing development since the early 1970s," Mamdani told Kimmel.TRUMP'S HOUSING CHIEF PAINTS A GRIM PICTURE FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP IN ONE MAJOR AMERICAN CITYPresident Donald Trump and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani walk out following their m...