Overview
- President Trump said he would help Zohran Mamdani "realize his dreams for New York" and predicted he would be a "great mayor."
- Both leaders called the roughly half-hour conversation productive, citing common ground on housing construction, the cost of living, and public safety including immigration enforcement.
- The White House kept the visit closed to press, and communications director Steven Cheung mocked waiting reporters in a post on X.
- Hours before the meeting, the House approved a symbolic resolution denouncing the "horrors of socialism" in a 285–98 vote.
- Mamdani, 34, a democratic socialist who becomes New York’s first Muslim mayor on January 1, said the discussion focused on shared goals for city residents.