Trump Extends Olive Branch To Self-Professed ‘Worst Nightmare’ Zohran Mamdani

President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he may sit down with Democratic New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in Washington D.C., telling reporters the avowed socialist “would like to meet with us.”

It’s unclear when the meeting might take place, but Mamdani has said he “continues to be interested” in speaking with Trump “on the ways in which we can work together to serve New Yorkers.” The pair exchanged blows throughout Mamdani’s successful mayoral campaign, with the 34-year-old referring to himself as Trump’s “worst nightmare” and the president calling Mamdani a “communist” and “total nutjob.”

“The mayor of New York, I will say, would like to meet with us and we’ll work something out. But he would like to come to Washington and meet and we’ll work something out,” Trump told reporters at the Palm Beach International Airport. “We want to see everything work out well for New York.”

Mamdani said he would contact the White House before his swearing in on Jan. 1, telling NBC New York last week that a relationship with the president “will be critical to the success of the city.”

“I’ll say that I’m here to work for the benefit of everyone who calls the city home and that wherever there is a possibility for working together towards that end, I’m ready,” Mamdani said regarding a potential conversation with Trump, who was born and raised in New York City and notably began his real estate empire there. “And if it’s to the expense of those New Yorkers, I will fight it.”

Trump’s openness to meet with Mamdani seems to mark a pivot from earlier in November when he