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Time of India
7 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
'If he does get in..': Donald Trump warns Zohran Mamdani, says he didn't know who he is
Donald Trump threatens that if Mamdani becomes NYC mayor and doesn't do the right thing, NYC will get no money. President Donald Trump reiterated his shock at Socialist Zohran Mamdani winning the Democratic primary for the NYC mayoral election, as he had earlier, but this time it came with a threat of not giving any money to NYC. Speaking on Fox Sunday morning, Trump said Mamdani is a communist and he openly admits it. "He's a communist and I think it's very bad for New York. I don't know if he's going to get in but he's a pure communist and I think he admits it," he said. "I can't imagine it, but let's say this: If he does get it, I am going to be president, and he's going to have to do the right thing. Or they are not getting any money," Trump said. — RapidResponse47 (@RapidResponse47) "I used to say that we would never have a Socialist in this country but we have a communist. I was very surprised. I never heard of him. I don't know who he is," Trump said adding that Mamdani is a left, liberal, lunatic. After Mamdani's apparent victory, after Andrew Cuomo conceded the election, Trump made his first comment about Mamdani on his Truth Social, where he said Democrats have crossed the line in choosing Mamdani. "Zohran Mamdani, a 100% Communist Lunatic, has just won the Dem Primary, and is on his way to becoming Mayor. We've had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous. he looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart, he's got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him. Yes, this is a big moment in the History of our Country!" Trump posted. Mamdani reacted to Trump's criticism and said: 'You know, this is not the first time that President Trump is going to comment on myself, and I encourage him — just like I encourage every New Yorker — to learn about my actual policies to make the city affordable." 'If he continues to focus on persecuting political enemies and on trying to detain and disappear New Yorkers, be it on the basis of their documentation or their sexual orientation or their politics, that is someone that I will fight time and again,' Mamdani told ABC.
New York Post
8 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Trump calls Mamdani a ‘pure communist,' threatens to cut off NYC federal funds if he's elected mayor
President Trump slammed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a 'pure communist,' warning that federal funding for the Big Apple could be at risk if the democratic socialist wins the general election. 'He's a communist, I think it's very bad for New York,' Trump told Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures.' 3 President Trump slammed Dem mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Fox Sunday morning. FOX News 3 'He's a communist, I think it's very bad for New York,' Trump said. Getty Images 3 Mamdani beat former Governor Andrew Cuomo by a significant margin in the NYC Democratic primary. via REUTERS 'I can't imagine it, but let's say this, if he does get in I'm going to be president and he is going to have to do the right thing, or they're not getting any money,' he added.
New York Post
21 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Michael Goodwin: Mamdani's mayoral primary victory sealed a headache for Dems – and proved they can't win no matter what
Here's how you know Democrats are cursed: They lose even when they win. In a week where President Trump kept his promise to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, forged a cease-fire in its war with Israel, scored a huge victory at the Supreme Court and saw the stock market hit a new historic high, Dems won . . . another giant headache. His name is Zohran Mamdani and his victory in New York's mayoral primary is already proving to be more of a problem than a solution to the Dems' woes. Advertisement His uber-progressive platform is so extreme that he's driving leading lefties to pretend to be moderates! Normally, winning the mayoral nomination is cause for party celebration because the Dem nominee usually prevails in deep blue Gotham, meaning more power, prestige and patronage. Besides, the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman routed bogeyman Andrew Cuomo and others with a campaign that boosted turnout among the kind of young voters who have been drifting away from the party. Top Dems dismayed Advertisement The hitch is that Mamdani's ideas, including giving away lots of free stuff, are so extreme that New York's Dem leaders are giving him the cold shoulder — and a slapdown. He's a true socialist who wants to freeze the rents on a million privately owned apartments and favors taxing homes owned by whites at higher rates than those owned by nonwhites. He promises government supermarkets, called for defunding the police and — naturally — taxing the 'rich.' If that weren't trouble enough, Mamdani is also a proven antisemite. Advertisement His history and agenda are prompting an outcry among even some fellow Dems and a budding effort to defeat him in the general election. They believe a Mamdani mayoralty would be good only if the goal is to boost Trump's popularity and help Republicans sweep next year's elections. In fact, some see Mamdani as so radioactive that they are refusing to endorse him, lest they get tarred with his brush. Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York's mayoral primary is already proving to be more of a problem than a solution to the Dems' woes. Derek French/UPI/Shutterstock Advertisement Gov. Hochul is rejecting a central promise of his platform, which is to impose big tax hikes on New York's highest earners and corporations. Hochul has rarely met a tax she doesn't want to raise, but the state's out-of-whack tax-and-spend structures already are making the Empire State the No. 1 exporter of residents to other states, a fact she cited in rejecting his tax plan. Hochul is facing a tough re-election campaign next year and obviously fears that throwing her lot in with Mamdani would be political suicide in the rest of the state, which is more moderate than the city. Another hurdle for many Dems is Mamdani's refusal to recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. He recently compounded that long-standing position, which includes support for the BDS movement, by defending the phrase 'globalize the intifada.' He claims it reflects 'a desperate desire for equality and equal rights and standing up for Palestinian human rights,' but that's nonsense, and the condemnations haven't stopped. The Washington Holocaust Museum called his argument 'outrageous and especially offensive' and Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said the phrase is an 'explicit incitement to violence.' Manhattan Rep. Dan Goldman said the word 'intifada' is 'well understood to refer to the violent terror attacks against innocent Israeli civilians that occurred during the First and Second Intifadas.' Advertisement He added that 'if Mr. Mamdani is unwilling to heed the request of major Jewish organizations to condemn this unquestionably antisemitic phrase, then he is unfit to lead a city with 1.3 million Jews — the largest Jewish population outside of Israel.' Resistance by default Even Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who is normally as quiet as the proverbial church mouse, denounced Mamdani. 'The global intifada is a statement that means destroy Israel and kill all the Jews,' she said. Perhaps most important, the two New Yorkers who lead congressional Dems have withheld their support. Advertisement Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries congratulated Mamdani, but said only they looked forward to meeting him to discuss his ideas. Oh, to be a fly on the wall! At home and abroad, Trump has delivered big-ticket reforms that will have lasting benefits for America and its allies. From a national perspective, the larger problem is that Mamdani represents another manifestation of the left's compulsion to be rabidly against whatever Trump is for. Advertisement The recent resistance featured such bone-headed plays as Dems defending Central American gangsters Joe Biden let into the country and trying to undercut Trump's magnificent success against Iran by citing a leaked 'deep state' report that said damage to the nuclear facilities was minimal. Only later did we learn that the leakers said they had 'low confidence' in the accuracy of the report. Yet with each of these clashes, Dems in Congress and their media megaphones shout and pound the table as if the end of the world as we know it is near unless Trump is stopped. Like the boy who cried wolf, their hysteria is leading to national exhaustion — and now comes Mamdani's absurd agenda. Advertisement Perhaps his radicalism represents peak madness, but even if not, Trump Derangement Syndrome is losing much of its ability to shape the national mood. A prime example involves the many federal and state judges who jumped on the resistance bandwagon with rulings that are nakedly political efforts to thwart the president. They got a dramatic comeuppance with the Supreme Court decision last week that curtailed their overreach in most instances. Keep up with today's most important news Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update. Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters Bumps in the road None of this is to suggest Trump's tenure has been without flaws. His tariff zigzags have caused trade disruptions, anxiety over household budgets and led the Federal Reserve to hold off on lowering interest rates, a move that would benefit many in the beleaguered middle class he aims to help. Similarly, the president's promise to deport dangerous illegal aliens has seen its popularity undercut by cases where some of those rounded up had no criminal records. Still, these are relative bumps on the road for a presidency that already has had a string of extraordinary successes. At home and abroad, Trump has delivered big ticket reforms that will have lasting benefits for America and its allies. For example, getting NATO members to realize he was right about the need for them to pay more for the common defense is one thing, but getting them to agree to more than double their annual pledge, to 5% of their GDP, is extraordinary. Among other benefits, it's a huge rebuke to Russia's Vladimir Putin. At home, the violations of Jewish students' civil rights by elite universities would have persisted without Trump in the White House. The same can be said for his assault on the issue of biological men participating in women's sports and his effort to end public funding for the leftist indoctrination outfits known as PBS and NPR. Trump did not discover these and other cultural rots, which were long ago identified. His genius lies in having the courage to actually do something about them. For that reason alone, history will be on his side.
New York Post
a day ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Mayor Adams: I helped rolled out free NYC bus pilot program but Mamdani's lousy negotiating skills killed it
Socialists apparently don't understand the art of the deal. Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is a terrible negotiator unfit to lead NYC, according to Mayor Adams, who told The Post this week he witnessed his rival's political deal-making ineptitude firsthand. Mamdani – whose Marxist pledge to provide free bus service citywide is a centerpiece of his mayoral campaign — asked Hizzoner for help bringing a pilot program for free buses during an April 2023 dinner at Gracie Mansion with the mayor, Adams recalled days after Mamdani shockingly won the Democratic mayoral primary. Adams — a Dem seeking re-election as an independent — agreed to help convince Gov. Hochul to add funding for the five-borough pilot in the upcoming budget, and even let Mamdani post a video of him on social media gushing how much he loved the concept. 5 Mayor Eric Adams says he once played a huge role helping Zohran Mamdani score Albany support to bring a pilot program providing fare-free buses to the Big Apple – only to have it crash and burn the following year because the socialist Queens assemblyman and mayoral hopeful is a horrific negotiator unfit to lead the city. 'I have always told my team to work with anyone — regardless of their politics — if it meant improving the lives of New Yorkers,' Adams said. 'So when Zohran Mamdani came to me in 2023 asking for help pushing for free bus service in the state budget, it was my team that went to Albany and got it done.' Days after the one-year, $15 million program expired Aug. 31, 2024, state Assemblyman Mamdani and state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) gushed it was a 'resounding success' in an op-ed they penned for The Nation. 5 The fare-free bus pilot programs on the Bx18A/B (Bronx)), B60 (Brooklyn), M116 (Manhattan), Q4 (Queens), and S46/96 (Staten Island) routes ended on August 31, 2024. MTA However, during 2024 budget negotiations, Mamdani ruined any chances of extending the pilot by butting heads with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and voting against the state budget in protest over a landlord-friendly measure that allowed home-repair costs to be passed on to rent-stabilized tenants, sources told The Post. An irate Heastie reportedly threatened to pull the bus pilot if Mamdani voted against the budget, and it was ultimately excluded. 5 Mamdani has made bringing free bus service citywide a centerpiece of his NYC mayoral campaign. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Mamdani and Heastie have since denied the confrontation happened. Adams – who has made 'Get Stuff Done' a motto of his three-plus years in office – said the 33-year-old socialist pol's failure to complete a layup and get the pilot program extended shows just how unprepared Mamdani is to run the city. 'Here's what Zohran doesn't want you to know: the only reason those free buses weren't renewed is because he failed to negotiate it back into the budget the following year,' said Adams. 'There is something so cruel about promising New Yorkers things you cannot — and have not — delivered on, which is precisely what Zohran Mamdani's entire platform rests on,' added the mayor, who has repeatedly ripped the millennial pol as a 'snake oil salesman' making progressive promises he can't keep. 5 Adams said it was him — not Mamdani — who convinced Gov. Kathy Hochul (pictured) in 2023 to fund a fare-free bus pilot program. Robert Miller Besides subsiding free buses citywide, Mamdani's Soviet-style proposals include freezing rents for regulated apartments, free child care and opening city-run grocery stores. 5 Mayor Adams holds Wednesday's New York Post with headline 'NYC SOS' following Mamdani's win in Democratic primary. Brian Zak/NY Post The long lefty laundry list — estimated to cost $10 billion— would be paid for by taxing the Big Apple's ultra-wealthy under Mamdani's plan, but critics say it's severely flawed because such action must be taken by state pols and not the sitting mayor. Mamdani's campaign did not return messages.
India Today
2 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
Trump says NYC could turn ‘communistic' if Mamdani wins mayoral race
US President Donald Trump on Friday called New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani 'a communist,' and said the Big Apple will become 'a communist city' if he is elected mayor in November.'I can't believe that's happening,' Trump told reporters at the White House. 'That's a terrible thing for our country, by the way.'President Trump on communist Zohran Mamdani: "Can't believe this is happening. Terrible for our country. He's a communist. So bad for New York." Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 27, 2025advertisementTrump's remarks came three days after Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, secured a stunning victory over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the first round of the city's Democratic mayoral primary. With 90 per cent of ballots counted, he secured 43.5 per cent of the vote, effectively clinching the win. A day after the primary results were announced, Trump launched a series of scathing online posts targeting Mamdani, calling him a '100% Communist Lunatic' and ridiculing his appearance and intellect. He also took aim at progressive leaders backing Mamdani, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Chuck Schumer.'It's finally happened—the Democrats have crossed the line,' Trump wrote. 'Zohran Mamdani, a 100 per cent Communist Lunatic, just won the Dem Primary and is on his way to becoming Mayor. We've had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous.'advertisementMocking Mamdani's voice and appearance, Trump added, 'He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart,' and accused prominent Democrats of enabling him. 'He's got AOC+3—Dummies ALL—backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him. Yes, this is a big moment in the History of our Country!'Mamdani is known for his outspoken views on foreign policy, particularly his strong pro-Palestinian stance, which has drawn sharp criticism from pro-Israel groups. He has previously stated that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits New York City, he would seek his arrest, citing the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants issued in November 2024.- EndsTune InMust Watch
