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Zohran Mamdani and Steven Spielberg Privately Met at Director’s NYC Apartment This Week
Hollywood Reporter ^ | January 9, 2026 | McKinley Franklin

Posted on 01/11/2026 12:32:44 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and Steven Spielberg had a private meeting on Monday at the director’s Central Park West apartment, per The New York Times.

The Times reported on the pair’s pre-dinner meeting on Thursday, which was confirmed by City Hall and Terry Press, Spielberg’s spokeswoman. Press additionally told the outlet Mamdani and Spielberg agreed to keep their meeting private, while Dora Pekec, a spokeswoman for the mayor, declined to comment, aside from sharing that he returned to work after the events.

Knowledgable sources tell The Hollywood Reporter the meeting was not initiated by Mamdani or Spielberg but by a third party who wanted the mayor and director to meet with Spielberg now being a full-time New York City resident. (The Times reported that the Jaws director became an official resident of New York on Mamdani’s inauguration day.)

Spielberg’s wife, Kate Capshaw, and their son Theo, plus his wife, were present at the meeting, as was Morris Katz, a Mamdani advisor, the the Times additionally outlined. The meeting took place on the first day of Mamdani’s first full week being NYC’s mayor.

Spielberg is a well-known Democratic party donor, though the Times noted there are no records of him financially supporting Mamdani’s campaign. The Academy Award-winning director was an avid supporter of former President Joe Biden.

The Democratic Socialist’s mother, Mira Nair, is also a Hollywood filmmaker. She has one Oscar nomination, stemming from 1988’s Salaam Bombay!, which also won the Camera d’Or at Cannes. In a 2025 profile with Nair, THR wrote that her Golden Globe-nominated film Monsoon Wedding is when she “became an indie darling.”

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There are fewer than 4000 Jews left alive in Poland today. There are more than 6000 descendants of the Schindler Jews.

- Schindler’s List

dir: Steven Spielberg

1 posted on 01/11/2026 12:32:44 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Ghey.


2 posted on 01/11/2026 12:35:46 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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3 posted on 01/11/2026 12:36:25 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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And the bad guys were allied with the islamists and wanted to exterminate all Jews. Did that EVER cross Spielberg’s mind? Did Madmandani tell him “Die, Jew”? Or gift him a yellow star?


4 posted on 01/11/2026 12:40:41 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Shame on you Speilberg. What the fk is wrong with you?


5 posted on 01/11/2026 12:42:04 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Bullish

People can be brilliant in one area and stupid as hell in others.


6 posted on 01/11/2026 12:46:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Spielberg- another pasty white self loathing liberal Jew....


7 posted on 01/11/2026 12:48:12 PM PST by God luvs America
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To: dfwgator

the irony of your post....


8 posted on 01/11/2026 12:48:30 PM PST by God luvs America
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Spielberg now being a full-time New York City resident.”

While many residents, both rich and poor, are fleeing New York. But hey, at least he’s cushioned against the bad economics of the city and state by his wealth.


9 posted on 01/11/2026 1:02:10 PM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times Editor)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Spielberg went down there recently and said, ‘The best seven hours I ever spent was actually with Fidel Castro,’” Duvall tells Charlie Rose on tonight’s “60 Minutes II,” alluding to Spielberg’s November ’02 sojourn to Havana to screen eight of his movies there.


10 posted on 01/11/2026 1:02:42 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: Jamestown1630

yes they can be and the more brilliant they are in one area, the stupider they are in others


11 posted on 01/11/2026 1:03:20 PM PST by Jeff Vader
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Mamcommie was “briefed” on Spielberg’s latest war movie. He then called Spielberg to object to the ending where America defeated the Nazis in WW2.


12 posted on 01/11/2026 1:08:44 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Spielberg has socks older than that muslim freak.


13 posted on 01/11/2026 1:09:57 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: dfwgator

He’s such a partisan hack that he doesn’t take seriously the message of his own movie. It was bad enough that he slobbered all over Obama. Now he pays homage to a creep who thinks Schindler’s List is Zionist propaganda. For Mamdani Amon Goeth is a role model.


14 posted on 01/11/2026 1:14:04 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: LuxAerterna

“Today is history!”


15 posted on 01/11/2026 1:14:49 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Will Spielberg be told to pay the jizya? Perhaps it’s too soon.


16 posted on 01/11/2026 1:48:06 PM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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Wasn’t it Spielburg and some others in Hollywood who very quietly groomed the Obamination before his presidential run?

I know Mandami can’t run for president, but I do not see any reason for Spielburg to meet him, especially at his apartment other than more leftist/communist planning. Spielburg is another lefty. Some intervention on behalf of the Jewish population of Manhattan would be a wasted gesture. Mandami is a moslim and they do not change their stripes.


17 posted on 01/11/2026 1:51:22 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: ChessExpert

He’ll be kicked out of “His” new luxury apartment. Because he believes the city should own all the property and he should be happy if they give him a one room 4th floor walkup in the Bronx. Because it’s FREE!!!


18 posted on 01/11/2026 1:58:20 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Bullish
Shame on you Speilberg. What the fk is wrong with you?

Spielberg has always been a libtard, and pervert. Like so many in Hollywood, it shows in the behavior of his bizarre offspring.

19 posted on 01/11/2026 2:03:24 PM PST by PGR88
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Mamdani: Don’t worry, Steven. We’ll kill you last.

Spielberg: Sounds good. What can I do to help?


20 posted on 01/11/2026 2:25:19 PM PST by mbrfl
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