Trump threatens federal takeover of NYC if ‘communist’ Zohran Mamdani wins mayoral race
By Steven Nelson
WASHINGTON — President Trump threatened Tuesday to use federal power to seize control of New York City if “communist” Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor.
“If a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places where we have to,” Trump told The Post during a Cabinet meeting.
Zohran Mamdani celebrating his primary victory in New York.
Trump says he loves his hometown of New York City — and might use federal power to save it.
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“New York City will run properly. I’m going to bring New York back. I love New York,” the president added.
“We’re going to straighten out New York. It’s going to — maybe we’re going to have to straighten it out from Washington.”
Trump, who in his first term threatened to yank federal funds from the Big Apple for allegedly tolerating lawlessness, did not identify what authorities he might invoke.
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“We’re going to do something for New York. I can’t tell you what yet, but we’re going to make New York great again. Also, we’re going to make it great again with the country,” he said.
Trump added that “I’m not getting involved” when asked if Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa should drop out of the race.
“[Andrew] Cuomo does have capability. He’s running, but he got knocked out [of the Democratic primary]. You have Eric Adams, the current mayor, you have Cuomo, and you have Curtis Silwa? And Curtis runs every, every four years. He seems to be a fixture on the running scale,” Trump said before calling Mamdani “not very capable, in my opinion.”
“He’s a disaster … He’s got the Democrat nomination because that shows you where the Democrats have gone. He actually wants to take over the grocery stores of John Catsimatidis,” Trump said, referring to the Gristedes chief.
“[Catsimatidis] actually called me the other day, he’s concerned, his stores are going to be taken from him.”
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