US President Donald Trump mocked New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani by not taking his name and saying, “Whatever his name is”. Trump also claimed that after the elections held on November 4, the American people will now have to choose between “leftism and common sense”.
Addressing the ‘America Business Forum’ in Miami, Florida, Trump said the American people had “restored” their sovereignty when he was elected president for the second time on November 5 last year, but they “lost some of it” with the mayoral election on Tuesday.
The statement came a day after Indian-origin democratic socialist Zoharan Mamdani was elected as the first Muslim and South Asian mayor of New York City.
“You see what happens in New York, terrible… I hope it doesn’t happen, but you’ll see,” Trump warned. “…And that Mamdani, or whatever his name is, thinks it’s great to have men playing women’s games.”
Trump had previously warned that a Mamdani victory would bring “complete economic and social devastation” to New York City. He said, “After Tuesday’s results, the choice before the American people is now very clear. We have two choices: leftism or common sense.” Does this make sense to you?” He reiterated that under his leadership America would not become a communist country in any form.
Meanwhile, in his fiery victory speech, Mamdani, a staunch Trump critic, said New York “will always be a city built by immigrants, run by immigrants, and now led by an immigrant.”
“After all, if anyone can show a country betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it’s the New York that brought him to the top,” he said to applause. If there is any way to intimidate a dictator, it is to end the very conditions that helped him come to power.”
Trump, in an interview with ‘Fox News’ in Miami on Wednesday, described Mamdani’s victory speech as “very angry” and said that Mamdani has started on the wrong foot and has no chance of success if he is not respectful of Washington.
The US President said, “Yes, I thought it was a very angry speech, certainly anger directed at me.” I believe that they should behave well towards me. You know, a lot of the things that come to them, I’m the one who approves them. So they have started in the wrong direction.
