Obama and Mamdani read and sing with New York preschoolers in first meeting
Former US president and New York mayor read to a group of children and led a sing-along at a Bronx childcare center
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/barack-obama">Barack Obama met with https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/zohran-mamdani">Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York City read to preschoolers and led a sing-along.
The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a week earlier, is also trying to build a working relationship with https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump – Obama’s Republican presidential successor.
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