President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion on Monday during his visit for the United Nations General Assembly Meeting. This will be their third public meeting, following previous encounters in November 2025 and February this year. Despite initial criticism, both leaders have maintained a mostly friendly relationship, discussing issues affecting New York City and occasionally disagreeing on policy matters such as Mamdani's pied-a-terre tax proposal and Trump’s Iran war policies.
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Story summary
On September 21, US President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met at Gracie Mansion, discussing various issues including immigration enforcement and a major housing project. Despite previous criticism from Trump, the meeting was cordial with both acknowledging press coverage disparities but welcoming all media outlets to their event. Trump defended his decision to ban certain media from the White House by saying, "They never boycott me," pointing out the presence of many journalists at Gracie Mansion. Mamdani emphasized inclusivity for all members of the press and highlighted the need for federal support on housing initiatives like the Sunnyside Yards redevelopment project, which aims to create 12,000 homes and generate 30,000 jobs in New York City. This unexpected alliance between Trump and Mamdani has confused observers across the political spectrum but complicates Republican messaging ahead of the midterms.
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President Donald Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday, the mayor’s office confirmed to NBC News.
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In a statement, Mamdani’s office said the two would meet at Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence, to discuss, “issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers.”
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The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The president will be in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly Meeting, where he is set to deliver remarks on Tuesday and meet with global leaders.
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This will be at least the third public meeting between Trump and Mamdani, who have previously met at the White House.
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The two first met in November 2025.
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The Democratic mayor, who was first elected almost a year ago, and the president have had a mostly friendly relationship, though they have at times publicly criticized each other.
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Prior to their first meeting, Trump described Mamdani as a “communist lunatic” but after meeting with the then-mayor-elect in the Oval Office, the president told reporters that he’d be “cheering” for Mamdani and described him as a “very rational person.”
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In an April interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Mamdani called his relationship with Trump, “honest, direct and productive.”
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He added that the pair get along as two natives of the nation’s largest city, saying, “New York City holds a very special place for him as well as for me.
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We’re both from the same city.”
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Following their second White House meeting in February, Mamdani said he raised to the president the arrest of a Columbia University student by Department of Homeland Security agents.
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The student was released shortly after their meeting.
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Despite Trump maintaining a chummier relationship with Mamdani than other Democrats, the president has jabbed at him publicly.
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Earlier this year, Mamdani rolled out his plan to impose a pied-a-terre tax on New York City homeowners who maintain a non-primary residence in the city.
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Trump derided the tax as, “SO WRONG,” in a post on Truth Social, writing, “Sadly, Mayor Mamdani is DESTROYING New York!
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It has no chance!
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The United States of America should not contribute to its failure.
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It will only get WORSE.
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Mamdani during his campaign last year called the president a “despot,” and a “fascist,” remarks he defended even after his first meeting with Trump.
“That’s something I’ve said in the past and I say today,” he told “Meet the Press,” after the Oval Office meeting.
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The mayor added, “I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement, about the politics that has brought us to this moment, and we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.”
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Mamdani has also criticized Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran.
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In April, he blamed the military conflict for worsening a cost-of-living crisis in the city he leads.
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“I wish that the words of Tupac from the ‘90s weren’t still prescient, but they continue to be true for too many, which is that ‘we always have money for war and not to feed the poor
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,’” he told “Meet the Press.”
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