United States President Donald Trump is poised to host New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for a meeting at the White House, marking an about-face for a duo who have painted themselves as diametrically and ideologically opposed in their political visions for the country.

On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump wrote late on Wednesday that Mamdani will visit the Oval Office on Friday in a post that also falsely called Mamdani a communist and placed his middle name, Kwame, in quotation marks.

“Further details to follow!” the president added.

Throughout the campaign that culminated in Mamdani’s historic November 4 election victory as the city’s first Muslim mayor, the president zeroed in on Mamdani as a target for public attacks, slamming the democratic socialist as a “com

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