New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani countered US President Donald Trump’s warning with a “threatened” jibe. The 34-year-old Indian-origin mentioned that Trump is “threatened” by his marketing campaign after the US president warned voters of reducing federal funds if Mamdani wins the mayoral elections. “You may clearly see that Donald Trump is threatened by our marketing campaign. He is threatened by it as a result of, like his, we have recognized the disaster in working-class New Yorkers’ lives – the price of dwelling,” Mamdani mentioned in an interview with CNN on Monday.“However not like him, we’re truly going to ship on that. And that could be a distinction that he cannot bear to see, as a result of whereas he’s spending USD 300 million remodelling a White Home ballroom, the identical amount of cash that might present SNAP advantages for 100,000 New Yorkers,” he added.Mamdani’s jibe got here after the US president, in a prolonged put up on Fact Social, mentioned that he’ll lower federal funding to New York if Mamdani wins the election. He additionally endorsed former New York State governor Andrew Cuomo for the highest metropolis put up.“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York Metropolis, it’s extremely unlikely that I can be contributing Federal Funds, apart from the very minimal as required, to my beloved first residence, due to the truth that, as a Communist, this as soon as nice Metropolis has ZERO likelihood of success, and even survival!” Trump wrote in a put up. “It may well solely worsen with a Communist on the helm, and I do not wish to ship, as President, good cash after unhealthy. It’s my obligation to run the Nation, and it’s my robust conviction that New York Metropolis can be a Full and Whole Financial and Social Catastrophe ought to Mamdani win,” Trump added.Aiming at Trump, Mamdani mentioned that the US president is making it more durable for People to afford groceries. “And this cash that we’re speaking about, it is cash that New York Metropolis is owed. It isn’t Donald Trump’s to resolve which metropolis or state will get what cash. That is the cash that New Yorkers are owed, and that is the cash that we will battle for,” Mamdani mentioned.Mamdani additionally reacted to Trump’s endorsement of Cuomo, saying, “We have recognized because the Main that Andrew Cuomo was funded by the identical billionaires that gave us Donald Trump’s second time period, even simply till these remaining days, (Cuomo) denied that he was Donald Trump’s most popular candidate.”“However now it is written out for all the world to see. That is the person that Donald Trump needs to be the following mayor of New York Metropolis, and never as a result of he’ll be good for New Yorkers however as a result of he’ll be good for Donald Trump and New Yorkers are exhausted of this agenda in Washington. They do not wish to see a mimic of it come right here to Metropolis Corridor,” Mamdani mentioned.
