But Le Pen, who leads in the latest opinion poll for the French presidential election, had no meeting scheduled with Trump nor with members of his transition team, according to representatives for her and for the president-elect. Her campaign chief, David Rachline, said she was making a private trip to New York.

Le Pen waved off reporters when approached while she sat drinking coffee with three other people outside the Trump Ice Parlor on Thursday. 

Among them was Guido Lombardi, an adviser to Le Pen who lives three stories below Trump's penthouse and is a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump once described Lombardi and his wife as "friends for a long time." Lombardi said last year that he helped organize a Trump rally in Washington during the campaign.