House Humiliates Mamdani Ahead Of White House Visit
The House delivered a forceful rebuke of far-left ideology on Friday morning, passing a resolution condemning the “horrors of socialism” just hours before President Donald Trump is slated to meet with Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s newly elected Democratic socialist mayor.
The resolution passed comfortably, 285–98, with Republicans unified and 86 Democrats breaking ranks to support it. Two Democrats voted present. Not a single Republican opposed the measure — a clear sign the GOP intends to make socialism a defining contrast heading into the 2026 midterms.
For Republicans, Mamdani’s sudden rise in America’s largest city has become Exhibit A in what they describe as the Democratic Party’s increasing embrace of radical, redistributionist politics. Speaker Mike Johnson and other GOP leaders have been blunt: Mamdani’s mayoralty will be used to show voters the real-world consequences of activist-left governance.
Democrats, meanwhile, attempted to downplay the vote, dismissing the resolution as a partisan document that “selectively lists certain despotic leaders and the harms of totalitarian regimes self-labeled socialist.” Leadership did not urge members to oppose it — an indication that many Democrats, especially those from New York, are uneasy about Mamdani’s ideological profile.
Mamdani, for his part, has been positioning himself as a pragmatic progressive since the election. Speaking Thursday, he acknowledged deep policy disagreements with President Trump but insisted he intends to work with the White House “on any initiatives that he believes will benefit New Yorkers.”
His first formal meeting with President Trump is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET on Friday. The visit comes less than three weeks after Mamdani’s November 4 victory — a win that stunned moderates and energized the far-left.
“I have many disagreements with the President, and I believe that we should be relentless and pursue all avenues and all meetings that can make our city affordable for every single New Yorker,” Mamdani told reporters, per NDTV.
“I intend to make it clear to President Trump that I will work with him on any agenda that benefits New Yorkers. If an agenda hurts New Yorkers, I will also be the first to say so,” he added.
According to Mamdani, his transition team initiated the meeting with the administration “because I will work with anyone to make life more affordable for the more than eight and a half million people who call this city home.” He noted that it is standard for an incoming New York City mayor to engage with the White House “given the mutual reliance.”
The mayor-elect argued the meeting is especially critical amid nationwide affordability concerns and local debates over public safety — issues he said are intertwined with federal policy under the current administration.
Framing the upcoming conversation as a unique convergence of mandates, Mamdani said New Yorkers elected “two very different candidates” for the same broad purpose: tackling a cost-of-living crisis he claims is suffocating working families.
Meanwhile, President Trump has not held back his criticism of Mamdani’s ideology. In a Truth Social post Wednesday night, the President described the incoming mayor as the “communist” Mayor of New York City and confirmed the meeting: “Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st.”
Trump repeatedly warned before the election that a Mamdani victory would be a “complete and total economic and social disaster” for New York City.
Mamdani’s victory speech — celebrated by progressives as a historic breakthrough for the far-left — took direct aim at the White House. Responding to Trump’s stepped-up immigration enforcement measures, Mamdani pledged that New York would remain a city strengthened by its immigrant communities and declared it would now be “led by an immigrant.”
He ratcheted up the rhetoric further, telling supporters: “After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.”
“This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,” Mamdani added.
The President dismissed the remarks, calling the speech “very angry” and warning that the incoming mayor is “off to a bad start” and will find it difficult to govern effectively without a working relationship with federal leadership.