Washington: The White House targeted New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, saying a “communist” is coming to the White House, a day before his planned meeting with US President Donald Trump on Friday.

Responding to questions about the meeting, the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt remarked, “It speaks volumes that tomorrow we have a communist coming to the White House, because that’s who the Democrat party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country,” referring to Mamdani, and said the president is “willing to meet with anyone and talk to anyone to try to do what’s right on behalf of the American people.”

Trump had announced the meeting in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, calling Mamdani the “Communist Mayor of New York City” and stating that the mayor-elec

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