Trump and Mamdani meeting in Oval Office on Thursday

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani traveled to Washington, D.C., on Thursday for a meeting with President Donald Trump.

Mamdani meeting with Trump

What we know:

Mamdani was reportedly seen on a plane bound for the capital Thursday morning, and is already in D.C. as of early Thursday afternoon.

The mayor reportedly pitched a 12,000-unit housing project to the president. He also brought up a Columbia student who was detained by ICE earlier today, Feb. 26.

Mamadani in State of the Union address

The backstory:

Trump mentioned Mamdani during his State of the Union address earlier this week, calling him “the new communist mayor of New York City.” While the president admitted that he liked Mamdani, in the same breath, he criticized Mamdani’s call for emergency snow shovelers after this weekend’s blizzard, specifically the requirement that applicants show two forms of identification.

“If you apply for that job you need two forms of ID and a social security card, yet they don’t want identification [required] for the greatest privilege of them all: voting in America,” Trump said.

Both men met for the first time in November, shortly after Mamadani was elected.

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During that meeting, the two discussed their shared focus on affordability for New Yorkers.