Mamdani pitches Trump on housing with mock newspaper in latest White House visit

Key Highlights

• Anna Bahr, Mamdani’s communications director, said the mayor’s team created a mock front page and headlines for Trump to look at and demonstrate what kind of reaction new federal housing investments could bring.
• The mock New York Daily News front page says “Trump to City: Let’s Build” – a riff on the famous 1975 cover that read “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” referring to Gerald Ford’s vow to veto financial assistance to the city.
• The mayor posted the photo of their meeting, featuring the front pages, to his social media page.
• Bahr said Trump was “very enthusiastic” about Mamdani’s proposal, which would allow 12,000 new affordable homes to be built at Sunnyside Yard in Queens by securing more than $21 billion in federal grants to build a deck over the rail yard site.
• The mayor’s office estimates that the project could create 30,000 jobs and would be the biggest housing and infrastructure investment in more than 50 years.