During a Fox News interview over the weekend, President Trump issued a warning to New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: if you win in November, behave — or lose federal funding.
Mamdani has threatened to abolish ICE, law enforcement, and medical bills — an incredibly radical, far-left platform.
“He’s a communist, I think it’s very bad for New York. I don’t know that he’s going to get in, it’s inconceivable that he is,” Trump said. “But he’s a communist, and he’s pure communist. I think he admits it. But I can’t imagine it, but let’s say this, if he does get in I’m going to be president and he is going to have to do the right thing, or they’re not getting any money.”
Trump added, “He’s got to do the right thing. It’s shocking that I would have assumed that. … I used to say we will never have a socialist in this country. No, but we’ll have a communist. I mean, he’s a communist, he gonna be mayor of New York. So I was very surprised when I said, I never heard of him, I don’t know who he is.”
Bartiromo also asked who Trump would support in the elction against Mamdani — but the POTUS wasn’t ready to tspill the tea.
“Well, I don’t want to say that because I have a lot of people, a lot of friends, and I have everybody, so I don’t want to get into that,” Trump said. “I can tell you this, whoever’s mayor of New York is going to have to behave themselves or the federal government is coming down very tough on them financially.”
Watch the clip below:
Watch Part 4 of @MariaBartiromo's interview with @POTUS discussing the NYC Mayor race, the Supreme Court rulings, and the future of the Trump agenda pic.twitter.com/7W5krRTiBj
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