President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani plan to meet for their third in-person meeting at the mayor’s residence on Monday.
Presidential visits to Gracie Mansion are rare. John F. Kennedy went in 1962, when Robert F. Wagner Jr. was mayor, and Ronald Reagan followed in 1981. A White House official confirmed to the Daily Wire that a meeting would take place there but declined to share further details. The Mamdani administration hasb said only that “the meeting will focus on issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers.” Trump and Mamdani will meet on Monday before the U.N. General Assembly, which is held in Manhattan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also expected in town — the same leader Mamdani once declared “not welcome in New York City” after his administration examined whether it had the legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against him and concluded it did not.
Trump had assured Netanyahu on Truth Social that he “will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.” The next day, Mamdani urged the federal government to join the ICC and execute the warrant.
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