Trump: New Yorkers would be ‘crazy’ to elect Zohran Mamdani mayor

By AP 1 July 2025, 5:13 pm

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US President Donald Trump talks to members of the press as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on July 1, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

US President Donald Trump says New Yorkers would be “crazy” to elect Zohran Mamdani as mayor.

Trump calls the Democrat a “communist” and says, “the last thing we need is a communist.”

Mamdani claimed victory over former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on election night last week in the Democratic mayoral primary. Final results will be announced later today.

The 33-year-old democratic socialist and New York state assemblyman would be the city’s first Muslim mayor and its first of Indian American descent if elected.

The Republican president, who grew up in New York, also mentions Mamdani’s campaign promise to open government-run grocery stores.

Trump says that if New Yorkers elect Mamdani as the next mayor, “I think they’re crazy.”