Trump warns New York “can never be the same” if Mamdani elected mayor

President Donald Trump warned that New York would never be the same if the New York town hall candidate Zohran Mamdani was elected.

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.

But Trump said that New Yorkers should not vote for the New York state deputy from Queens, whom he described as “a man who is not very capable in my opinion, apart from he has a good line of bulls -.”

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President Donald Trump criticized the candidate for New York town hall, Zohran Mamdani, during a meeting of the cabinet. (Getty Images)

“N ° 1, you have a communist race and you should not vote for him,” said Trump at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “It is a disaster. He leads. He has the appointment of Democrats because it shows you where the Democrats left.”

“I do not get involved, but I can tell you this: I said that we will never be a socialist country. Okay. Well, I will repeat it. We are not going to have – if a communist is elected to direct New York, it can never be the same.”

Mamdani did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Fox News Digital.

Trump has already energized Mamdani and threatened to stop him if he refused to comply with federal immigration officials. Trump’s remarks occurred after Mamdani said in June that he stopped immigration and customs’ “masked” officials to “deport our neighbors”.

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The candidate for the Democrat mayor, Zohran Mamdani, speaks during a rally at the headquarters of the Council of Trades of the Hotel & Gaming in New York, on July 2, 2025. (Richard Drew / The Associated Press)

“Well, we will have to stop him,” Trump told journalists at the White House on July 1. “Listen, we do not need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I will monitor them very carefully on behalf of the nation. We send him money. We send him everything he needs to manage a government.”

In response, Mamdani published a statement saying that Trump’s comments were equivalent to assault against democracy.

“The President of the United States has just threatened to have me stopped, to strip my citizenship, to lead a detention camp and to deport,” said Mamdani. “Not because I have broken a law but because I will refuse to let the ice terrorize our city.”

“His statements do not only represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to each New York who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak, they will come for you,” said Mamdani.

Trump also criticized Mamdani after the 33 -year -old refused to condemn the term “globalizing the intifada”.

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“Frankly, I heard that it was total nut work,” Trump told journalists on July 1. “I think New York people 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.

Mamdani said in a June interview with NBC News 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”.

Mamdami has received criticism from democrats for refusing to go out with a position on the sentence, notably from the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries room in New York. Jeffries told ABC News on Sunday in June that the term was not “an acceptable phrasing”.