Trump to meet with Mamdani Monday – City & State New York

Trump to meet with Mamdani Monday  City & State New York

The leaders got along famously well last year. This meeting, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, could be more tense. President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met in the Oval Office on November 21, 2025. Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump plans to meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion Monday, as the city welcomes world leaders for the U.N. General Assembly. “The meeting will focus on issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers,” City Hall said in confirming the meeting to City & State. A spokesperson for the mayor, Dora Pekec, declined to provide any further details regarding topics of discussion or logistics for the gathering.

But there would seem to be issues of mutual interest that go beyond just New York. The Monday confab at the mayor’s residence on the Upper East Side – his first time playing host to the president –comes on the Jewish High Holy Day of Yom Kippur, and just days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver a Thursday speech at the U.N. Netanyahu is not expected to meet with Trump during his U.S. visit, and is only planning to be in New York for about a day, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. Netanyahu’s