President Donald Trump tore into mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani after incumbent Mayor Eric Adams quit the race for City Hall, NBC News reported.
In a back-handed compliment, Trump on his Truth Social site called democratic socialist Mamdani “one of the best things to ever happen to our great Republican party.”
Trump then reiterated his threat to withhold federal funding from the city if Mamdani is elected mayor. The president wondered “what’s the point” of anybody voting for the Queens assemblyman under those circumstances.
“He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City,” wrote Trump, who hails from Queens. “Remember, he needs money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any