Trump on Zohran Mamdani: ‘I’m Going to Have a Lot of Fun With Him’
“I think the people in New York are crazy and they go this route. I think they’re crazy. We will have a communist for the first time.”
President Donald Trump told the press that he will likely “have a lot of fun” with Zohran Mamdani, the man who is likely to become New York City’s mayor.
I think he’s terrible. He’s a communist. The last thing we need is a Communist. I said there will never be socialism in the United States, then we have a Communist. I think it’s bad news, and I think I’m going to have a lot of fun with him, watching him, because he has to come right through this building [points to the White House] to get his money.
And don’t worry. He’s not going to run away with anything.
I think, frankly, I’ve heard he’s a total nut job. I think the people in New York are crazy and they go this route. I think they’re crazy. We will have a communist for the first time. Really a pure, true communist. He wants to operate the grocery stores, the department stores. What about the people that are there?
.@POTUS on Zohran Mamdani: "He's a communist. The last thing we need is a communist… I think he's bad news and I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with him, watching him, because he has to come right to this building to get his money." pic.twitter.com/2DsFQ8XeGo
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 1, 2025
Trump is not wrong.
Mamdani does not call himself a communist but is a proud socialist.
Well, Mamdani’s words tell a different story. It’s true that he wants to establish city-run grocery stores, claiming that these would reduce prices. He wants to raise taxes on the wealthy.
The campaign website even suggested moving “the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”
Mamdani, who comes from a wealthy family, doesn’t “think that we should have billionaires.”
Let’s not forget his hatred towards Israel. Mamdani won’t even denounce “Globalize the Intifada.”
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Perfect! All about his beliefs and policies and nothing about his race or religion, although I think his Muslim background should be open to discussion eventually.
I am just stunned to watch how stupid NYCers are.
Someone call Snake Plisskin!!
However Trump also deliberately stirred the pot by ridiculously questioning Mamdani’s legal status. He knows very well that that’s wrong, and has no intention of even trying to deport him, but he does it because it gets under the lefties’ skin.
NEVER underestimate the staggering amount of death, pain and misery “woke” voters will inflict upon society so they can virtue-signal at the polls.
They’ll even virtue signal to their own detriment.
Pyotr Wrangel, in old Russia when the revolution was starting, wrote about how he was just astonished that 3/4 of the Romanov women went around wearing red ribbons in ‘solidarity’ with the Bolsheviks. The ones that had made their entire platform the removal of the Romanovs and all nobility and were engaged in a violent revolution to overthrow them.
Yeah, but they didn’t say they were going to murder them all. There’s no reason a Romanov might not agree that they shouldn’t have all the privilege and position that they had.
Likewise the original French revolution merely removed the king from office, and let him live as an ordinary citizen just like anyone else. Paine was very proud of this, and used it as proof of the revolutionaries’ purity. Then they voted to murder him and his wife, and Paine voted against it and got thrown in prison for his troubles. So much for that argument of his. But it would have been completely reasonable for Louis and/or Marie to support the original revolution and agree that they should not have the power they had.
To take another example from that era, many slave owners supported abolition and wished the law would free all slaves, including their own. Jefferson explicitly wrote that he kept his slaves because the law prevented him from freeing them, and it would be wrong to sell them to someone who actually believed in slavery and would therefore treat them worse.
Griz:
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I think I did it right. I copied some VERY long email address with a craigslist.com on the end. If I did this right. you will get an email starting with “d.” in the sender address.
How much more business will Trump’s various companies pull out of NY?
Sliwa, Adams, and Cuomo need to decide which two are going to drop out.
It all may come down to ego.
They could agree to draw straws.
As long as they are not plastic ones…
Oh, no. The organic type that farmers use.
Gin: Or, if they are beer drinkers, they could draw Stroh’s.
Rock, Paper, Scissors.
If I recall right, the deadline for getting off the ballot may have passed already. All their names will be printed on the ballots.
Trump isn’t talking about stopping Mamdani. He expects him to win, and so do I. Cuomo won’t stop him, no way there will be enthusiasm for Mr. Nursing Home. Adams was way behind in the polls for some reason, I thought we all celebrated successful black men, apparently not. He’s done a fair job as mayor, shouldn’t he be a shoo-in? And Sliwa has no chance unless the other two drop out, which ain’t happening.
Their names may be printed, but they can withdraw anyway and endorse the remaining candidate. Cuomo says he’s still thinking about whether to campaign; his independent slot on the ballot is just to preserve his options.
And Walden. Which three will drop out.
Our only form.of government is a republic (if we can keep it) per Article IV, Section 4 “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,..”
Let’s how that plays out with this this one.
I’m not exactly sure what that means, Does it refer to the federal government or each state government?
It means what it says. The states are required to have republican forms of government, and the union is to enforce this requirement. The Supreme Court said the clause is not justiciable, and it’s up to the two political branches to enforce it or not, as they choose.
But Mamdani’s election wouldn’t affect even NYC’s form of government, let alone NY state’s. A republic can have communist policies. Republics can be utter tyrannies; most republics in history were. Certainly at the time the USA was founded, the history of republics was quite horrible. That’s why, contrary to many on the right, our founders not only said the USA would be a republic, but also that it would be a democracy.
Trump never misses an opportunity to troll someone.
I approve!
It’s actually comical the Democrat excuses for him.
When you bring up his insanity about government grocery stores, how he doesn’t think billionaires should be ‘allowed’, how he’s going to remove police from high crime neighborhoods and replace them with social workers, Democrats spin trying to explain them.
All of their ‘explanations’ all boil down to, ‘Well yeah he said that, but he wouldn’t ACTUALLY try to do it!’
In other words, take him seriously but not literally? Now whom does that remind me of?
We do it, too, but not on campaign promises.
Trump promised to imprison Hillary, then wimped out — very bad. Same for his promises to the gun community — both terms.
But nobody elected Trump on a promise to annex Canada or Greenland, so we let him have his fun. Then we are happily surprised when at least one of those proposals turned out to have a valid point, and be entirely possible in spirit..
Of course Mamdani will adopt Communist policies as his governing program for NYC. His playbook is almost straight out of “Looking Backward” by Bellamy, an immensely popular book first published in 1888 that spawned movements all over the world.
Let’s get specific. His plan for city-run grocery stores. Food costs a lot in NYC, and high-crime neighborhoods suffer a dearth of food outlets. The idea of much cheaper food has a big appeal for many New Yorkers who come from Third World countries where socialism is popular.
To understand the grocery business one needs to know the difference between markup and profit margin. Conventional stores have margins around 2.2%, but markups are much higher; in the range 10%-20%. While city-run stores can operate without a profit, they must mark up because their suppliers won’t provide goods for free. Markups have to cover operating expenses, and Mamdani wants to increase the minimum wage. Operating expenses include the cost of theft. Does Mamdani think thieves won’t steal from city stores? If you want to get details go to thegrocerystoreguy dot com.
So city run grocery stores will need subsidies. New Yorkers will pay their food bills partially through taxes which will have to go up from the existing very high levels. Of course Mamdani plans to tax the rich to pay for all this stuff, so most New Yorkers not being rich won’t care. Of course as Maggie Thatcher said: “socialism works until you run out of other people’s money.” The very rich are very mobile, like capital. They will both flee NYC. What happens when the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ both move to Texas? My opinion: sooner of later New York Communism will resort to violence. We have ample evidence from the history of the USSR and Eastern Europe. Someone has to stop this guy. To use a phrase from the left: by any means necessary.
There’s some major government experience with government run stores, both department stores and food stores. In fact they had one called “Government Universal Store”.
That was the famous “GUM” in Moscow, in the Soviet Union.
These stores were so great, people would wait half a day in line hoping to get even some of the items on their shopping lists!
“While city-run stores can operate without a profit”
Yeah, good luck with that.
Back before 1995 or so. Virginia had a state monopoly on retail liquor. You couldn’t buy booze except from a state-run “ABC” store. (Beer and wine were available in supermarkets.) The prices for the same items were the same in all stores, whether you were in affluent Fairfax County, or rural Barren Springs. And in no case were they even CLOSE to competitive with commercial establishments located anywhere over any of their state borders.
“City-run stores will operate without a profit” until the city feels the pinch. Then they won’t.
Mamdani knows the bodies can flee or declare primary residence out of the city, but their apartment buildings can’t flee. Hence, he wants to raise their property taxes.
Advised by the Obama team and associated economists, he’s no dummy. An enemy but not a dummy.
If property taxes increase then the market value of the property will be affected. If the market value drops below the outstanding mortgage, then the owner has no equity. As New York is not a non-recourse state, the property owner gets seriously hurt, and will sue the city for levying punitive property taxes. As Mamdani wants to target white property owners, the owner have a good chance of prevailing.
I don’t agree with your “he’s no dummy.”
sure,,just repeat of the 1970s where they would send in a black family or two to buy homes in white neighborhoods…people would flee and then the property values would go down and the government HUD SEC8 etc agenda went into overdive
nowadays, they just call it affordable housing and how dare yo argue against
teachers and fireman and police officers not being able to live where they work..is the “gotcha”
when in reality its just more of the same
Property owners will at some point quit paying taxes and abandon those buildings. That will accelerate NY’s decline.
Nope — let them f*** themselves over. Let them burn it down, and get violent about it. Contain them then and there.
“Mamdani does not call himself a communist but is a proud socialist.”
Give him time. Meanwhile the rest of us can find bumper stickers that say ‘Drop Dead NYC’
the more public property becomes controlled by the government the dream / nightmare of communism exists
so yeah,,when the government even in those red states can be confiscated for failure to pay your taxes that TOO is a trait of communism
not paying your tax bill can have OTHER CONSEQUENCES
it doesnt have to be the confiscation of YOUR PROPERTY
so when the imadman preaches it out loud and we recoil
remember,,, his job was and is made easier by the fact that any gop run city or state that allows for your property to be taken for failure of taxes is in fact…communism
The difference between communist and socialist is of interest only to people deep into that world. Like the differences between different kinds of Chassidim. Of intense interest to insiders, but from the outside they look identical.
And that’s why I routinely prefer the Cold War term, as it has the visceral bite the other lacks.
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