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Zohran Mamdani to skip the Met Gala — breaking longstanding NYC mayoral tradition
Page Six ^ | April 15, 2026 | Sara Nathan

Posted on 04/17/2026 2:11:58 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and first lady Rama Duwaji have been invited to the Met Gala — but won’t be attending, sources tell Page Six.

New York City’s mayor is traditionally invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the lavish event every year, but we’re told that Mamdani, 34, won’t be joining Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour and her coterie of celeb guests on Monday, May 4.

“He’s not coming,” said a source. “And it would be foolish if he did … can you imagine? It goes against everything he believes in.”

Indeed, the event is being financially subsidized by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos — currently the world’s third richest man — and his wife, Lauren Sánchez-Bezos, who have been named as lead donors and honorary co-chairs of the gala, which raises money for the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Met.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: annawintour; art; bezos; billionaires; capitalism; cluelesscommies; cosplayers; elites; gala; highsociety; jeffbezos; mamdani; metgala; museum; nyc; redcarpet; socialism; vogue; wintour; zohranmamdani; zoltarwisdom
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How prior leaders tried to compensate for their attendance before the common man:

The current mayor and his wife took their wedding photos on the subway.


1 posted on 04/17/2026 2:11:58 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

He’s busy washing his prayer rug.


2 posted on 04/17/2026 2:22:11 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Too many pictures violate Sharia law.

He’ll probably call for censoring them.


3 posted on 04/17/2026 2:22:45 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: T.B. Yoits

...because his wife dare not try to walk among beautiful women.


4 posted on 04/17/2026 2:28:15 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: InsidiousMongo

No better charity then a costume charity.....🫤


5 posted on 04/17/2026 2:28:41 PM PDT by cherry
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

When you see pictures of the Met Gala it looks like an insane asylum. It is a national embarrassment. He would fit right in.


6 posted on 04/17/2026 2:30:36 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: jroehl

Whorehand McDummy, what a disgusting puke.


7 posted on 04/17/2026 2:32:01 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (@!@)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

For a Sharia believing Muslim like Mamdani, any event such as the Met Gala, with all those half dressed, half drunk on champagne Influencers, is a Mine Field of Free Speech and absolutely to be avoided if possible. That includes the Misses too. Mamdani’s wife tends to get chatty and will overshare data if anyone asks her certain triggering, Trap-Door questions.


8 posted on 04/17/2026 2:36:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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"The current mayor and his wife took their wedding photos on the subway. "

How is that possible?

He was married in Uganda.

That photo must be from a different occasion.

9 posted on 04/17/2026 2:51:19 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

They had a legal civil ceremony in NYC and then a party in Uganda months later.


10 posted on 04/17/2026 2:59:23 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege (🦋🌷🩰)
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To: MeanWestTexan

“Too many pictures violate Sharia law.”

Sharia law calls for doing whatever it takes to move in and claim territory

I wish people would tune in


11 posted on 04/17/2026 2:59:36 PM PDT by stanne
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

and a private Muslim ceremony in Dubai.3 ceremonies


12 posted on 04/17/2026 3:05:08 PM PDT by avital2
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I wouldn’t want the Communist pig there if I lived in NYC.


13 posted on 04/17/2026 3:17:22 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ED)
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To: jroehl

I’m with him, for once. Those apes that attend it have no idea they look like the capital city residents in the Hunger Games


15 posted on 04/17/2026 3:31:11 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Probably persona non grata to the Richie riches anyway.


16 posted on 04/17/2026 3:31:28 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: InsidiousMongo

Western civ is not his interest.


17 posted on 04/17/2026 3:40:31 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: avital2

actually maybe Uganda was just a 3-day “celebration.” i don’t see mention of any ceremony. so i correct myself.


18 posted on 04/17/2026 3:54:53 PM PDT by avital2
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If I was mayor I wouldn’t attend either. Different reasons but the same outcome.


19 posted on 04/17/2026 4:14:39 PM PDT by xp38
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Her dress had a misspelling, should be “tax this b1tch”


20 posted on 04/17/2026 4:45:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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