{"id":5285,"date":"2026-09-21T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-mamdani-meet-as-media-and-iran-disputes-persist\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:06:08","slug":"trump-mamdani-meet-as-media-and-iran-disputes-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-mamdani-meet-as-media-and-iran-disputes-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Mamdani Meet as Media and Iran Disputes Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/89aYhOB99sE\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump talks media bans, Iran war during meeting with NYC\u2019s Mamdani\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/89aYhOB99sE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> NEW YORK \u2013 September 21, 2026 (STL.News) President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met Monday at Gracie Mansion, continuing an unexpectedly cordial working relationship despite substantial disagreements over the Trump administration\u2019s restrictions on several news organizations, the war involving Iran, and other national policies. The approximately hour-long meeting was the third between Trump and Mamdani and their first in New York City since Mamdani became mayor. Trump was in New York as world leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly, where he is scheduled to speak Tuesday. The meeting produced movement on one<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/trump-mamdani-meet-as-media-and-iran-disputes-persist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 September 21, 2026 (STL.News) President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met Monday at Gracie Mansion, continuing an unexpectedly cordial working relationship despite substantial disagreements over the Trump administration\u2019s restrictions on several news organizations,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}