New York City’s newly elected mayor, Socialist Zohran Mamdani, will travel through the Acela corridor on Friday to meet with President Trump at the White House, in what has become one of the most anticipated first meetings since Frazier and Ali at Madison Square Garden in 1971.
So will there be fireworks, if not fistfights, when these two men, without saying a good word about the other, become acquainted? I wouldn’t count on it.
In his final press appearance on Good Morning America after becoming mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani said he would not be “intimidated” by President Donald Trump’s potential threats to deploy the National Guard to the Big Apple. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Stephani Spindel/VIEWpress)
If we see the patented Trump sitting in the Oval Office with his guest and reporters, and if I were Zany Zohran’s team I would do my best to avoid this, the stupidest thing Hizzoner can do is make an angry scene out of the Little Red Book.
Let’s face it, if Mamdani, the 34-year-old theater kid who has never had a real job, takes on Trump, like, say, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalenskyy, and unfortunately, once that happens, the president will wipe the floor with him.
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Not only does Trump have the most powerful home field advantage in the world in the White House, he also doesn’t actually need anything from Mamdani. That’s something the new mayor can’t say about Trump, who holds the keys to a lot of the federal money Gotham needs.
A mayor is often defined by his first months in office, and Trump has the ability to make things very difficult, with ICE raids and federal dollar freezes, or to give Karl Marx’s acolyte a runway, perhaps even enough rope to hang his crazy free-stuff initiatives.
So there are plenty of reasons for Zohran to flash his winning smile, be nice and have his picture taken with 47.
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On the other hand, for Mamdani’s strongest supporters, his socialist base, Trump is the physical embodiment not only of capitalism but also of fascism, not that they draw a particularly bright line between the two.
Zohran can’t really get along with the president as he keeps his promise to become Trump’s worst nightmare. Not only would it sicken his fellow Democrats, it would undermine their entire current reason for existing.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President Donald Trump in Washington DC, on August 19, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Democrats, who currently have no coherent identity, compensate by hating Trump. Democratic members of Congress are urging our military to disobey his orders. Democrats in Congress spend more time making anti-Trump TikTok videos than reviewing legislation.
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This is the rock and hard place that Mamdani finds herself between on Friday. If he’s too rude to Trump, he’ll undermine his own chances of doing the work he wants to do in Gotham. If he is too cordial, he will make his party, which blows its hair on fire daily over Trump, look foolish.
The wild card in all this is, as always, Trump himself, from whom we can see a fatherly lecture, a mockery of Zohran or even the kind of backhanded praise he likes to tactically dish out to his opponents, such as Vladimir Putin or Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
As Trump put it, in his fateful meeting with Zelenskyy, he and the White House hold all the cards.
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The last thing to keep in mind about Friday’s meeting, whatever its form or content, is that rumors are already circulating among Mamdani’s socialist base that he is selling them out.
The mayor-elect’s decision to keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in place was a concession to moderates in the Democratic Party, as was his declaration that “now is not the time” for Socialist City Council Member Che Osse to allow House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to become House Minority Leader in his Brooklyn district.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol about member safety following the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Thursday, September 11, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
We’ve seen this before. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., also plays it both ways a bit, never quite going as far as the ‘Squad’ she leads on controversial issues, often telling them metaphorically, “Go ahead, I’m right behind you.”
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About a decade ago, Trump began a takeover of the Grand Old Party, which is now virtually complete. Today, Zohran Mamdani is very much part of the socialist effort to do the same with the Democratic Party.
When The Donald shakes hands with Zohran on Friday, no doubt aggressively and for a long time, we may see for the first time the versions of our two major political parties that will spar over the future of our nation in the coming decades.
