US President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani are set to meet at the White House on Friday, the president said in a social media post.

The meeting marks the first time the two leaders will come together to discuss how they can work with each other since the election earlier this month.

Throughout Mamdani’s campaign, Trump repeatedly assailed him as a “communist” and warned his election would be devastating to New York City’s status as the world’s financial capital. The president, a native New Yorker, pushed voters to coalesce around former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary.

After Trump’s post, Mamdani in an interview on the cable network MS NOW said his team had reached out to the White House for the meeting.

“I want to just speak plainly to the president about what it means to actually stand up for New Yorkers and the way in which New Yorkers are struggling to afford the city,” Mamdani said. “And frankly, cost of living is something that I heard time and time again from New Yorkers about why they voted for Donald Trump.”