What we know about Friday’s Trump-Mamdani meeting

NEW YORK – An extended-awaited assembly between President Donald Trump and the newly elected mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani is predicted in Washington on Friday.

It’s the first confrontation between the 2 Arctic politicians since Mamdani’s election victory.

Trump and Mamdani will meet on Friday

What we all know:

Trump stated on social media on Wednesday that the sit-down would happen within the Oval Workplace.

The 2 are anticipated to debate town’s affordability disaster, public security and financial safety.

The assembly will happen at 3:00 PM ET and is presently closed to the press.

What they are saying:

Mamdani stated Thursday he’s “not involved” that his upcoming assembly with Trump could possibly be a political lure, and as an alternative promised to focus the assembly on how they might work to make town extra inexpensive.

At a information convention outdoors New York Metropolis Corridor, the 34-year-old democratic socialist stated he hopes to “share the information concerning the metropolis’s affordability disaster,” whereas rejecting the concept that the president may use the assembly to embarrass him.

“I’ve many disagreements with the president, and I consider we have to be relentless and pursue all avenues and encounters that may make our metropolis inexpensive for each New Yorker,” he stated.

Mamdani wins mayoral race

The backstory:

Earlier this month, Mamdani scored a surprising victory in New York Metropolis mayor race with a marketing campaign centered closely on town’s affordability disaster, promising to focus authorities energy on serving to the working class whereas combating again in opposition to a hostile Trump administration.

FILE_Zohran Mamdani, mayoral candidate of New York Metropolis, throughout an election night time occasion on the Brooklyn Paramount Theater within the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. (Adam Grey/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

Trump has railed in opposition to Mamdani for months, warning that his hometown would descend into chaos underneath the management of the younger progressives and suggesting he would withhold federal cash from town if Mamdani received.

Mamdani will take workplace as mayor subsequent 12 months, succeeding present Mayor Eric Adams, who has traveled overseas and posted a photograph of himself subsequent to an Uzbek official on Thursday morning.