Trump calls Hochul the approval of the New York Town Hall candidate “ shocking ”

President Donald Trump says he was shocked by the main approval of the New York Democrat Town Hall, Zohran Mamdani, landed this weekend.

A few hours after the Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul from New York supported Mamdani, Trump went to social networks early on Monday to give approval a big boost. And the president suggested that federal funding from the most populous city in the country could be in danger.

“Governor Kathy Hochul of New York approved the communist” communist “”, Zohran Mamdani, who presents himself for the mayor of New York. It is a rather shocking development, and very bad for New York, “wrote the president on his social platform Truth.

Mamdani, a 33 -year -old democratic socialist state legislator from the New York district, rocked the political world in June with his convincing victory over former governor Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates to seize the appointment of the mayor of the Democratic Party in the most popular city in the country.

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The candidate for the New York Democrat Town Hall, Zohran Mamdani, spoke with supporters during a canvass launch event in the Brooklyn prospect park on Sunday, August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

After Mamdani’s main victory, Trump immediately criticized him as a “100% communist madman”.

The president continued to make fun several times Mamdani as a communist in the months that followed, while warning that new York would become “a communist city” if Mamdani won the elections to the November mayor.

“I call her my little communist. It is my little communist mayor,” said Trump about Mamdani during an interview in the studio extended Friday on Fox News’ “Fox and friends. “”

Trump, in his article on social networks, also suggested to restrict federal funding for New York if Mamdani wins the elections of the November mayor.

“How can such a thing happen? Washington will close this situation very closely. No reason to send a lot of money after bad!” The president said.

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Mamdani offers to eliminate prices on the vast New York bus system, making CUNY (City University of New York) rents) “without tuition fees”, rents on municipal housing, offering “free daycares” for children until the age of 5 and the establishment of spices managed by the government.

But Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and would become the first Muslim mayor and first millennium in New York if he was elected, denied being a communist.

Hochul, in his approval, wrote that “New York deserves a mayor who will resist Donald Trump and make life more affordable for New Yorkers. It’s @zohrankmamdani.”

On Sunday, the governor of New York State, Kathy Hochul, approved Zohran Mamdani, the candidate of the town hall of the Democratic Party in New York. (Left: John Lamparski / Getty Images, right: Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

The approval of the governor, which occurred almost three months after Mamdani’s main victory, is important. This can help Mamdani guarantee the support of other key members of the party establishment. And this will likely exert more pressure on two other high -level Democrats in New York State who still refuse their support from Mamdani – the minority chief of the Senate Chuck Schumer and the minority of the Hakeem Jeffries House, the two main leaders of the Democratic Party at the Congress.

Mamdani, in a statement, said that he was “grateful to the governor of his support in the unification of our party – as well as the work she has accomplished to President Trump, obtaining free meals for our children and expanding access to child care.”

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Mamdani is the clear precursor in the last public opinion polls in the town hall race in the city dominated by the Democrats.

Mamdani has large two -digit tracks on Cuomo and the rest of the field in three surveys published during last week.

The candidates of the mayor of the city of New York, from left to right, the candidate of the Democratic Party Zohran Mamdani, the mayor Eric Adams, who presents himself as a former independent governor Andrew Cuomo, who also presents himself as an independent and republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. (Getty Images)

The co-founder of Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, who, for a second consecutive election, is the Republican candidate for the town hall in the city dominated by the Democrats, was a third distant from the ballot box, with the mayor besieged Eric AdamsWho presents himself as independent after having decided to jump the Democratic primary in the middle of the anemic survey, lower in fourth place.

Sliwa and Adams have repeatedly committed to staying in the race in recent weeks in the midst of several reports that Trump advisers have exercised administration roles for the mayor’s two hopes if they abandoned.

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On Sunday, following a new report that ADAMs would abandon in the coming days, the mayor’s spokesperson retaliated.

“Let me be perfectly clear: any rumor or tweet suggesting that the mayor Adams is moving this week is complete bulls-“, spokesman Todd Shapiro wrote in a press release. “These lies are divided by desperate opponents who cannot match the mayor’s record, his campaign energy or his support in this city.”