What to know about the Trump-Mamdani meeting:

President Trump is hosting incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House for their first meeting following Mamdani's election victory earlier this month.

The high-stakes sit-down in the Oval Office, set for 3 p.m., comes after months of public hostility between the two. Mr. Trump, a native New Yorker, strongly opposed Mamdani during the mayoral campaign , even threatening to arrest and deport him. Mamdani has accused the president of acting like an authoritarian, and Mr. Trump has called the mayor-elect a "communist."

Mamdani, who vowed to "Trump-proof" the city on election night , said Thursday that he reached out to the president to set up the meeting. "I intend to make it clear to President Trump that I

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