The president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks with the media, after the United States Supreme Court hit the power of federal judges by restricting his ability to grant broad legal relief in cases while the judges acted in a legal fight on the offer of President Donald Trump to limit the citizen of birth, in the press presentation room in the White House in the White House in Washington DC, on June 27 of 2025.
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President Donald Trump described the candidate for the Democratic Mayor’s Office of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, “communist” on Friday, and said that the Big Apple will become “a communist city” if he is elected mayor in November.
“I can’t believe that is happening,” Trump told White House journalists. “That is something terrible for our country, by the way.”
Trump’s comments occurred three days after Mamdani, who is a Democratic socialist, not communist, won a surprising victory over former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the first round of the primary of the city’s Democratic Mayor’s Office.
Cuomo admitted Mamdani on Tuesday night, recognizing the strong probability that the next round of the classified election vote system would confirm Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialist of America, as nominated for the Democratic Party.
Mamdani won the initial primary round despite the fact that many prominent Democrats had backed Cuomo.
His victory has sent some important investors, New York business leaders and conservative news commentators in a very real possibility that Mamdani, a state assemblyman of three periods, will be the mayor of the largest city in the United States.
Mamdani’s campaign platform requires an increase in the corporate tax rate, higher taxes on the rich, freezing of free rental and buses.
Zohran Mamdani speaks during a surveillance party for his primary election, which includes his attempt to become the Democratic candidate for the Mayor of New York City in the next elections of November 2025, in New York City, US
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Trump recognized the alarm about Mandani among business leaders, saying that he is “worried that someone like this New York communist one day is chosen.”
“It’s communist. We are going to a communist city,” said the president. “That is so bad for New York.”
On Wednesday, Trump in a publication on social networks wrote: “Zohran Mamdani, a 100% communist lunatic, has just won the dem -primary school,
And he is on his way to becoming mayor. “
“We have had radical left out before, but this is becoming a bit ridiculous,” Trump wrote.
CNBC has requested comments from Mamdani’s campaign about Trump’s comments.
Mamdani was asked, in an interview with ABC News published on Wednesday, about Trump’s social networks.
“You know, this is not the first time that President Trump comments on myself, and I encourage it, just as I encourage all New York, to learn about my real policies so that the city is affordable,” Mamdani told ABC.
Phillip Lafront, founder of the Coatue Management Coverage Fund, told CNBC on Wednesday that if Mamdani wins the general elections, some rich investors could decide to move away from the city.
“Some people are surely going,” Laffont said in “Squawk Box.”
Cuomo has not yet announced if he plans to run for mayor this fall as independent.
The current mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, is already looking for re -election as an independent candidate.
Initially chosen as Democrat, Adams decided earlier this year to run for re -election as independent, instead of asking other Democrats to name him on the electoral ballot of the party.
Adams has become increasingly unpopular in New York after he was accused in September for federal corruption charges presented by the Department of Justice when former Democratic President Joe Biden was still in office.
After Trump took office in January, the DOJ asked a judge to dismiss the case against Adams, arguing that the mayor’s prosecution would interfere with his ability to govern the city and cooperate with the federal immigration application, a priority for the new president.
Seven federal prosecutors, including the interim American prosecutor of Manhattan whose office managed the case, resigned in protest for the effort of the Department of Justice to leave Adams prosecution.
In April, the judge of the Dale Hole Court dismissed the case against Adams with damage, which means that the Department of Justice cannot resurrect when Adams leaves the position.
In his order, HO criticized the Department of Justice, which had initially wanted the case dismissed without prejudice, which would allow prosecutors to reopen the case at some point, potentially.
“Everything here smells like a bargain: dismissal of the accusation in exchange for immigration policy concessions,” Ho wrote.
The judge said that dismissing the case without prejudice “would create the inevitable perception that the mayor’s freedom depends on his ability to carry out the priorities of application of the administration of the administration.”
