Mayor Muriel Bowser enters the elevator at Trump Tower. (Photo via Twitter)

Mayor Muriel Bowser enters the elevator at Trump Tower. (Photo via Twitter)

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser emerged from the Trump Tower elevator on Tuesday saying she had a “wide-ranging conversation” with the president-elect about “things that are important to Washingtonians.”

She declined to get into specifics, though her office said yesterday that the two would discuss statehood, infrastructure, and public safety.

Bowser said she came to Trump Tower to “meet with the president-elect, congratulate him and welcome him to Washington.” And perhaps to mend old fences. The two used to have a working relationship—she spoke at the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office groundbreaking in July 2014 and he and his family donated $9,000 to her election and inaugural committees.

However, things grew icy after Trump entered the presidential race. The Democratic D.C. mayor supported Hillary Clinton during the election, and opted against going to the Old Post Office ribboncutting. Only 4 percent of the people in the city she represents voted for the president-elect, though Bowser said she will attend the forthcoming inauguration.

“The one thing I know emphatically that he said is that he is a supporter of the District of Columbia,” Bowser said after the meeting. “He’s familiar with the District of Columbia, and he wants to be supportive.”

Whether that support includes the future president pushing for statehood or even serving as a backstop against congressional meddling, Bowser said she was “not going to talk about his feelings or what he shared.”

Based on her comments, it sounds more like she gave him a tutorial on what, precisely, D.C.’s odd limbo entails. “It was important for me to make sure that the new president knows that we’re not a federal agency,” she said. “It was important to me that he knew also about our relationship with the president and with the Congress.”

She also said she brought up Metro— “number one on the list of things to talk about is federal involvement in Washington DC’s transit system”—education, and the upcoming inauguration.

Bowser also tried to find common ground with Trump, saying that they discussed “his transition, and even how his transition and the transition we went through as a city just two years ago may be alike,” seemingly referring to her primary win over then-Mayor Vincent Gray.

When it comes to specificity, though, Bowser blew Trump out of the water. When asked what he would discuss with Bowser earlier this morning, Trump said, “We’re going to talk about a lot of things to a lot of people. We have a lot of people coming up. Great people. Doing very well.”

When asked if she would take a job in the Trump administration (not that one has been offered), Bowser smiled. “I have the best job in Washington, D.C.,” she said. “I’m the mayor.”

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