New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he will be meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House Friday, “to make the case for every New Yorker.”

Mamdani said his team reached out to the White House and that it was “customary” for an incoming New York City mayor to meet with the president.

The sit-down, which Trump said on social media would take place Friday in the Oval Office, could possibly represent a detente of sorts between the Republican president and Democratic rising star, as Trump has since Mamdani’s win moved toward acceptance of Mamdani’s central, winning campaign issue of affordability.

Calling Mamdani by his full name — and putting the mayor-elect’s middle name of Kwame in quotation marks — Trump posted Wednesday night that Mamdani had asked for the meeting, promising “Further details to follow!”

Mamdani said Thursday in New York he plans to discuss his “affordability agenda, public safety and economic security for each and every person that calls this city home.”

“This is an opportunity to make the case for New Yorkers. And it's a case that reflects what New Yorkers are having to live through at this time,” Mamdani told reporters.

“When we speak about an affordability crisis, we're speaking about 1 in 4 New Yorkers living in poverty, 1 in 5 struggling to afford $2.90 to ride the bus – New Yorkers, for whom the daily acts of life are becoming increasingly harder to afford. And that's an opportunity I have to make the case to President Trump, to the White House, as to what it means to have to suffer through this affordability crisis, and what it means to make it even more difficult to do so,” he also said.

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