Memo to Wu.

It does not work that way, Michelle.

You, the mayor of Boston, do not ask the President of the United States to meet with you. You ask to meet with him.

That is what leaders of countries around the world do when they want to sit down with President Donald Trump, the most powerful leader in the world. They ask to come to the White House.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes to Washington. Trump does not go to Kyiv.

It is also the way Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat Socialist mayor-elect of New York, got to meet with Trump in the White House last week. He asked for the meeting.

Now, if you were Kevin White, the late flamboyant four-term (1967-1984) imperial mayor of Boston, who considered himself a national figure, it might be different.

Not for nothing was he dubbed “the Mayor of Ameri

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