Zohran Mamdani singled out President Donald Trump’s reading materials as among the “weirdest” things he saw at the White House during an even weirder meeting.
The New York City mayor-elect, 34, appeared on an episode of The Adam Friedland Show on Monday, where he discussed Friday’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office.
At one point, host Friedland asked Mamdani: “What was the weirdest thing [Trump] showed you?”
“I sit down, waiting for the time of the meeting, and in front of me are all of these different coffee-table books,” Mamdani said. “And one of them is UFC at the White House. I had no idea, and I was just flippin’, flippin’ through that."
“Oh yeah, he’s bringing it there, right? Are you gonna go?” Friedland responded, referring to the White House UFC event planned for June 2026

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