NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump will meet at Gracie Mansion on Monday, City Hall says
President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani struck up a cordial relationship as they met in the White House last year. Credit: AP/Evan Vucci
President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are meeting Monday at Gracie Mansion, the latest get-together between the political opposites.
It’s the first known meeting that has been scheduled between the men outside of the White House.
"The meeting will focus on issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers," Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Pekec said by text message.
Pekec did not provide further details of the meeting at Gracie, the official mayoral residence, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. An unsigned email from the White House press office confirmed the meeting but did not comment further.
Trump and Mamdani have cultivated a cordial relationship, which began soon after Mamdani won the mayoral election last year. The two also speak by phone and text regularly.
During the mayoral election race, Mamdani’s political foes fretted that Trump would dominate Mamdani and harm the city.
"Donald Trump would go through Mr. Mamdani like a hot knife through butter," former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at one of the debates.
Just months before their first meeting, Trump called Mamdani "a radical left lunatic" and more. Trump, now 80, threatened to arrest and deport Mamdani and to withhold federal funding from the city and seize control if he were elected.
Mamdani, now 34, called himself Trump's "worst nightmare" and pledged to "fight him every step of the way."
But after their first meeting, in November 2025, their tone changed.
Trump complimented the mayor as a "nice guy" and good-looking.
For his part, Mamdani said they were "honest and direct with each other about places that we had disagreements, and we also were looking to find the places that we could align to deliver for the same New Yorkers that we both care about."
Several presidents have visited Gracie since John Quincy Adams, who attended a party there decades after the Scottish shopping magnate Archibald Gracie brought the property in 1798 and built the mansion the next year, according to the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.
In 1942, then-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia made it the official mayoral residence.
Matthew Chayes, a Newsday reporter since 2007, covers New York City.
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