“Jimmy Kimmel Live” is back in Brooklyn.
Mamdani laughed. “Sorry brother,” he replied. “The president and I have many disagreements. One thing we do agree on is this city, how much we love this city, so from that first meeting in November of last year, I was just thinking of how we can make this meeting not about us, but about New Yorkers. How can we spend that time talking about the things that can make life in the city a little bit easier.”
Kimmel then threw to a video clip of Mamdani standing next to Trump at Gracie Mansion as the president gave a rambling speech, with the camera pressing in on Mamdani as he stood there stone-faced. “I mean, it is remarkable,” offered Kimmel. “I watch that, and I go, ‘OK, this is not a guy I’d want to play poker with.’” Mamdani said that while Trump is speaking, he’s only focused on getting federal approval for his proposed Sunnyside Yard project, a development in Queens that would feature an estimated 12,000 new homes and create approximately 30,000 jobs.
Kimmel then asked if they could text Trump “a selfie of us right now,” only to have Mamdani shut him down: “Jimmy, I love you, but I love housing more.”
