New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that he is “not interested” in his upcoming meetings with President Donald Trump. He pledged to focus the discussion on how they can work together to make the city more accessible.
Mamdani said at a news conference outside New York City Hall that he hoped to “share the facts about the city’s affordability crisis,” rejecting the idea that the president might use the meeting to embarrass him, the AP reported.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that Trump was willing to “meet with anybody” and try to do “what’s right” on behalf of the American people, while calling Mamdani a “communist.”
“…The president has issued a statement that the mayor-elect is coming to the Oval Office tomorrow, so our teams are working out the details… It says we have a communist coming into the White House tomorrow because that’s who the Democratic Party has elected to be the mayor of the largest city in the country,” Leavitt told reporters.
