Trump slams the candidate for the town hall of New York Zohran Mamdani

President Donald Trump castigated the candidate for New York town hall, Zohran Mamdani, after the New York State assembly of Queens refused to condemn the term “globalize the intifada”.

“Frankly, I heard that it was total nut work,” Trump told journalists on Tuesday morning. “I think that people from New York are crazy because they follow this path. I think they are crazy. We will have a communist in the first time, really a real communist. He wants to make grocery stores. The department stores. And the people who are there? I think it’s crazy.”

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Zohran Mamdani, New York town hall candidate, rolled up his sleeves during a campaign event in New York on June 23, 2025. (Adam Gray / Bloomberg)

Mamdani is a Muslim of Ugandan origin who won the primary of the Democratic Party for the mayor of New York in June and identifies himself as a democratic socialist.

Mamdani said on Sunday that he did not want to condemn the term “globalizing the intifada”, a sentence used to support the Palestinian resistance against Israel, because he did not want “police language” in an interview with NBC News.

President Donald Trump speaks to the media before crossing the southern lawn of the White House to get on board Navy One on the way to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, then in Florida on July 1, 2025 in Washington, DC (Mark Schiefelbein / The Associated Press)

“I think he’s terrible. He’s a communist,” Trump said on Tuesday. “The last thing we need is a communist. I have said, there will never be socialism in the United States. So even the Communists, I think this is bad news. And I think you are going to have fun with him, watch it, because he has to unravel this building to get his money. And don’t worry, he’s not going to run with anything.”

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The Democratic candidate for town hall Zohran Mamdani goes on stage during his main electoral group on June 25, 2025 in New York. (Heather Khalifa / The Associated Press)

Mamdani’s comments have been the subject of a meticulous exam in recent days after an interview in June with the site of news and anti-Trump conservative opinion The Bulwark, and during a Sunday interview with the host of NBC News, Kristen Welker. Although Mamdani declared that he did not personally use the term “globalize the intifada”, he does not believe that it is his role of potential mayor to go out with a position on the sentence.

“My concern is to start going down the language line and specifying the language I believe allowed or inadmissible, takes me in a place similar to that of the president, who seeks to do this kind of thing, putting people in prison for having written an editorial, putting them in prison for protest,” said Mamdani. “In the end, it is not a language that I use. It is a language which I understand that there are concerns, and what I will do is present my vision of the city through my words and my actions.”

Mamdami has received criticism from members of his own party for refusing to go out with a position on the sentence, including the chief of the Hakeem house minority in New York. Jeffries said in an interview with ABC News on Sunday that the term was not “an acceptable phrasing”.

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“He will have to clarify his position on this subject as he advances,” said Jeffries.

Despite this, Mamdani said in an interview on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” before the main race that Israel has the right to exist.

“Yes,” said Mamdani. “Like all nations, I believe that it has the right to exist and a responsibility to also respect international law.”

Hanna Panreck of Fox News contributed to this report.