Name: ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal' from The Adam Friedland Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-24. Transcript available.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal

What is it like? You go to the White House, you take a selfie on a plane.
Yeah.
No caption. That is like Drake vibes a little bit.
Hit the emoji though.
You hit the emoji.
Come on!
You know where I was going.
What are you thinking on the plane? What's the game plan there?
Honestly, I knocked out on the plane.
I mean, you looked like, you looked a little bit like...
That was the joke on the internet.
You looked a little bit like you took the... nothing.
You can say it.
You look a little bit like you hit the edible before the flight.
Why would you say that?
I'm sorry, Mr. May.
Why would you say that?
I don't know.
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My guest this week is mayor-elect of New York City and former striker of the
Bronx Science
Wolverines, Zoran Mamdani.
On Friday, my staff huddled around the office computer and we all watched the
mayor-elect's
historic press conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
My 22-year-old employee, Zach, tapped me on the shoulder.
His voice was quivering.
A tear was rolling down his cheek.
I remember it clearly.
He said, "Dad, I mean Adam.
The man on the screen, standing next to the President of the United States,
will be here
in 36 hours' time.
But how do we get him off the computer and into the real world?"
I smiled and looked at him and said, "If you can figure out how to do that,
Zach, I'll
give you a million fucking dollars."
So please enjoy my conversation with Zoran Mamdani, everyone.
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Ladies and gentlemen, mayor alike, New York City, Zorah Mamdani, everyone.
Good job.
Elect.
Elect.
Congratulations.
How you doing?
How you doing?
Good.
It's funny, like when I met you, we just talked about sports.
I wasted your time like four days before an election.
I thought it was great.
I know.
We talked about all of our collective pain.
Yeah.
The game's on right now.
The North London Derby's on right now.
3-0, baby.
You said you've been too busy running for mayor to watch the games this year.
Yeah.
And now you're making me too busy to watch.
But, like, we'll get an update if it's four.
Oh, shit.
This is unprofessional.
I thought I'm...
I got a...
Someone text me.
Oh, shit.
You need to see this.
Oh, no.
Guys.
Hi, Zoran.
How you doing, Ian?
Right here.
What?
I just want to say a massive, massive congratulations on what you've achieved.
Um...
The real work, no.
Starts now.
But, God willing, you can achieve everything that you have, um...
I love you.
Set out to achieve.
I'm gonna cry.
You're gonna need some of that...
How did you do this?
I pulled everything.
...winning energy that you've got, my friend.
And get behind the boys.
It's a long way to go.
I'm gonna cry.
You just have to stay calm.
Back, Mikel.
And all the boys.
Up the gunners, baby.
Take it easy and God bless, my friend.
I, uh...
I just gotta take...
How did you do this?
My boy.
Eyes around, how you doing?
I'm just gonna watch it again.
Yeah, just watch it again.
I just wanna say a massive, massive congratulations on what you've achieved.
I love this man.
He's the best guy of all time.
Have you seen the video where he is reunited with his teacher?
He meets his teacher.
Mr. Pigeon.
I thought you was dead.
I thought you were dead.
We have...
Okay, here's the problem, guys.
I don't wanna expose you, but we...
Can you...
We...
Yeah, just...
We...
It's...
I mean...
You're right, right, right.
Okay, uh...
Just...
What a man.
I didn't do that.
I really, really bothered...
And you actually...
I thought there was something wrong.
I...
I know.
Yeah, yeah.
Mr. President...
I didn't know where you were going.
No, no, it's not a...
It's not a...
No.
How did you do that?
I knew that it was gonna be...
I love him.
I love him.
I love him so much.
He's the best guy of all time.
You know his background story.
He was like, uh...
Working in a factory, and then he tried to get...
He's like, "I'm gonna try one more time."
And then he...
He went to Crystal Palace.
He got like a...
These are like the stories I would read when I was 17 and on the new team of a
travel team
in New York City.
What did you play?
What position did you play?
I played...
Bronx Science?
I played up top.
Up top?
Yeah.
You were a nine?
I think I was 23.
Okay, but you were a striker.
Yes.
It's no relation to the number on the back of my jersey.
We have like a lot of our brain is occupied by the most useless information
related to this...
to this soccer team.
Every day I wake up I think about Sebastian Squilacci.
Oh my God.
Pascal Sigan.
I think about...
Marwan Shamak.
Yeah, I...
When I caught...
I caught you...
Like I'd be a little bit of a politician because I said that Ospina was giving
me nightmares
and you're like Jackson Heights is in the balance.
I need...
Yeah, it's like can you lay off my Columbia goalkeeper for a moment?
No one cares.
No one cares.
We're embarrassing ourselves.
Okay.
You grew up in the Upper West Side.
Yeah.
New York City kid.
Yep.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Where did you grow up?
Well, we actually...
We both lived a little bit as kids in Cape Town.
Yeah.
You lived in Cape Town?
Yeah.
Where did you live?
Observatory?
I lived in Oranjezert.
That's where my mom grew up.
From '96 to '99.
My mother grew up in Oranjezert.
Yeah.
Both my parents are from Cape Town.
What?
I was born in LA.
My dad was on a list of some sort.
You gotta give me more than that.
My dad and mom both went to university in London.
Okay.
We're Jews from Cape Town.
Okay.
Shout outs.
And then they met in South Africa.
They met at home in Cape Town.
They kept getting set up on blind dates.
And she was like this fucking guy again.
And then somehow he wore it down.
And then they got married and he got a letter that he was being sent to Angola
to the Civil War.
And so they left.
They just packed up and left.
When did they leave?
What year?
'82.
Wow.
So I was born in LA.
Okay.
Have you been to Cape Town?
My dad was on an enemies list because of the apartheid regime.
Yeah.
Not a bad list to be on.
So I lived there when I was a kid.
And then I was there back.
My granny's from Seapoint.
None of the grannies left.
Wow.
And actually an interesting thing.
Are they still there?
Granny's still there.
'94.
She just got a hip.
You wanna send her a video?
Let's do it.
Hi, Granny.
Yeah.
Congrats on the hip.
Congrats on the hip.
Esther, congrats on the hip.
I promise I'm trying my best in life.
No, she's very proud of me.
I told her I was the mayor coming on.
And no, no.
So yeah, Madiba actually, he was like, when I was a kid, I used to write my
essays.
Like, who's your hero on Madiba?
Madiba.
Because it connected me to my parents.
Because it was like, you know, in South Africa.
That's amazing.
But he went to our synagogue after he got out of jail.
He was elected.
And he was like, you gotta tell your kids to come back.
Because we need everyone to build a country.
And like, my parents are a whole generation of Jews.
So why are you not following Madiba right now?
Because I had to talk to you.
And I got this studio.
It's a lot.
It's a lot of work.
You know, last time I went back was in 2010.
2010.
For the World Cup.
The Jabalala.
Was it obnoxious?
Vuvuzela.
Yeah, could you not hear anything?
You hate it if you're not the one doing it.
And I was one of the people doing it.
You got one.
Yeah, I brought them back.
They're fucking loud.
I brought them back to Maine.
I bought one back to college.
Yeah, yeah, to college.
I went to a D3 basketball game.
My roommate was on the basketball team.
With the Vuvuzela.
And I had the Vuvuzela.
Yeah.
And I pulled it out.
And I blew it.
And the ref stopped the game.
Uh-huh.
You need to fucking stop.
Yeah, yeah.
And you're like, come on.
Didn't you see the World Cup?
Didn't you see the ball that went in all different directions?
But I was at the Ghana-Uruguay game.
No!
That's where I cried in public.
No!
Yeah.
Luis Suarez.
Asamoah Ghion.
Dude, I can't-
Var.
Guys, this is like-
It was the closest-
The mayor caring about- caring about soccer is- the mayor caring about Arsenal
is like Wakanda
for me.
It's like- I feel like- it's like representation.
Do you remember that tweet?
You're one of- I remember your tweet.
No, no, no.
Not the- what is it?
Ruth Kanda forever?
Ruth- oh my god.
Yeah, like when I met you, one thing that was like remarkable is like, um, we
were talking
about soccer and hip-hop.
Yeah.
And I was like, we are losers.
I was like-
But I was like, we're the same like-
Representation matters.
We're the same generation, right?
It dawned on me that my entire life- this is kind of feels like the first time
that someone
from my generation has ascended to leadership.
I guess Mayor Pete did, but he was more of a suck-up to the parents.
You're more of one of us, I think.
I don't- you couldn't laugh at that or he couldn't laugh at that?
No, you're- are you mad at me?
She gets mad at me.
She yells at me, Olivia.
Can you tell her a second?
Um, anyway.
Uh, that's- give it up for Olivia.
I had a communication.
Why is everyone so nervous?
Well, that's- that's Monica.
That's- that's Emilia.
Oh, Emilia, sorry.
That's Emilia.
Oh, sorry.
Okay, cut that.
Okay.
How you