Mayor Zohran Mamdani made an unannounced trip to Washington, DC, on Thursday to meet with President Trump about housing, The Post has learned.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the sit-down said the democratic socialist mayor and the president were set to speak at the White House in the afternoon.
The Oval Office sit-down — the mayor’s second since his election in November — will touch on a “variety of housing projects” that could amount to a “historic investment” in new housing in the Big Apple, one source said.
City Hall made no mention that the mayor was leaving the Big Apple, with nothing on his public schedule for the day. The mayor’s reps confirmed the planned meeting after The Post first broke news of the secret trip.
A source said Mamdani flew to DC to help “put icing” on a proposed bill by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren that would curb Wall Street’s ability to buy housing.
Mamdani, wearing a black hat and mask, was spotted with his entourage Thursday morning riding in the back of a Delta plane. He was joined by a top adviser, Morris Katz, who has no formal role in City Hall.
Trump on Tuesday night gave Hizzoner a shoutout during the State of the Union.
“The new communist mayor of New York City, I think he’s a nice guy, actually,” Trump said. “I speak to him a lot. Bad policy, but nice guy.”
The president also made a point during his annual address to highlight his focus on creating more housing for Americans.
“Last month I signed executive order to ban large Wall Street investment firms from buying up, in the thousands, single family homes … And now I’m asking Congress to make that ban permanent, because homes for people — really, that’s what we want,” he said.
The commander-in-chief and young Big Apple mayor have been talking often since the two met face to face in DC last year.
Their chummy first White House meeting in November shocked the political world, with insiders dubbing it the start of a “bromance.”
Trump at one point even gave Mamdani cover when the then-mayor-elect was pressed by reporters about his prior attacks on the president.
The pair also discussed housing issues at the time, with Mamdani’s team calling the meeting “productive.”
The mayor’s chief of staff, Elle Bisgaard-Church, told The Post after that Mamdani and Trump spoke about how the city can cut red tape to fast-track housing development.
Bisgaard-Church said Trump was notably interested in Expedited Land Use Review Procedure (EULER), a 90-day streamlined approval process for affordable housing projects with little zoning adjustments.
The typical process for approval —Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, aka ULURP — can drag out past seven months.
“The president felt very interested in a kind of common sense approach to reduce onerous burdens on the housing and development owners, actually,” Bisgaard-Church said at the time.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/26/us-news/mamdani-makes-secret-trip-to-washington-dc-to-meet-with-trump/
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