Weeks before taking office, New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.

The meeting was announced by Trump in a social media post. He claimed that the “Communist Mayor of New York City” had asked for it. While Mamdani is a democratic socialist, Trump often refers to him as a communist leader.

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Both Mamdani and Trump are fierce critics of each other’s policies. Mamdani had in part stitched his mayoral poll campaign around anti-Trump sentiments.

During his election campaign, Mamdani had vehemently criticised Trump’s immigration policies and slammed him for threatening to cut federal funding to the New York city.

Mamdani has also confirmed the meeting, saying he has reached out to the US President to discuss the conce

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