Trump interested in meeting with Mayor-elect Mamdani, says ‘we’ll work something out’

President Trump, upon his return to Washington from Palm Beach on Sunday night, stated that he wanted to hear from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after Mr. Mamdani had expressed interest in meeting with him recently.

“The Mayor of New York, I will say, would like to meet with us, and we’ll work something out. But he would like to come to Washington and meet, and we’ll work something out. We want to see everything work out well for New York,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Trump slammed Mr. Mamdani and his race for mayor over the past few months before Election Day, calling him a “communist” and ultimately endorsing former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the last days of the campaign.

“Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!” the president said.

Mr. Trump also warned that Mr. Mamdani did not have New York Jewish residents’ best interests and Jewish voters in the city would be foolish to support him.

“Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self-professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!” he wrote to his supporters on Election Day.

Mr. Trump cautioned that if Mr. Mamdani, who promised to freeze New York City apartment rents and eliminate bus fares, won the election and was uncooperative with the administration, then Mr. Trump would cut off federal funding to his native hometown New York City.

“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media earlier in the month.

Upon wining the mayoral race, Mr. Mamdani whipped up his supporters at his election night party and pushed back on Mr. Trump and said during his remarks, “If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stopped Trump, it’s how we stop the next one,” he said.

“So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching. I have four words for you. Turn the volume up.”

The mayor-elect continued, “We will hold bad landlords to account, because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.”

Mr. Mamdani said he and his administration will “stand alongside unions and expand labor protections, because we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have iron-clad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.”