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Trump to Meet Mamdani at Gracie Mansion as Midterms Enter Final Weeks
President Donald Trump will meet New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion on Monday, their third face-to-face meeting and first in New York, as the city prepares for the UN General Assembly and the midterm campaign enters its final stretch.
President Donald Trump will meet New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion on Monday, the mayor's office confirmed, in a sit-down focused on issues affecting the nation's largest city. The meeting will be the third face-to-face encounter between the two leaders and their first in New York, following earlier sessions at the White House.
A time for the meeting has not been announced, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for additional details. City Hall said the discussion at Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the New York City mayor, will center on matters affecting New York City and its residents.
The two first met in the Oval Office in November 2025, shortly after Mamdani won the mayoral election, and met again at the White House in February. During that first meeting, Trump and Mamdani said they had discussed housing, affordability and other issues affecting New Yorkers despite their political differences, and both expressed optimism about working together where they could. Monday's meeting will be their latest opportunity to continue those discussions.
The timing places the meeting against two overlapping backdrops. New York City is preparing to host world leaders for the United Nations General Assembly, and the campaign for November's midterm elections is entering its final weeks. The convergence of a major diplomatic gathering and a closing election season gives the encounter added visibility.
Mamdani has become one of the nation's highest-profile progressive mayors as progressive Democrats and Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates have won several high-profile primaries this election cycle. That wave has fueled a broader debate over the Democratic Party's direction ahead of the midterms, with the mayor's national profile rising alongside it.
The meeting also comes as the relationship between the two leaders remains a subject of attention. Their first Oval Office sit-down in November 2025 drew wide interest precisely because it paired a president with a newly elected mayor whose politics diverge sharply from his own. Both men framed that conversation as productive on the issues where cooperation is possible.
For New York City, the agenda is likely to remain practical. Housing and affordability were central to the first meeting, and they remain pressing concerns for residents of the city. The mayor's office has not released a detailed list of topics, but the focus on issues affecting the city suggests a continuation of that earlier discussion.
The White House has not commented on the meeting's schedule or scope. The mayor's office confirmed the sit-down but offered no further specifics. As of Sunday, no time had been announced for Monday's event.
Monday's meeting will be the first time Trump visits Gracie Mansion during Mamdani's tenure, and it will be the third time the two have met in person. The encounter is expected to draw attention both for its local implications and for what it signals about the broader political moment as the midterm campaign closes.
