Posted on 05/20/2026 3:52:27 AM PDT by Libloather
Zohran Mamdani’s “apology tour” to quell the business community’s outrage over his bizarre social media posting targeting fellow business leader Ken Griffin didn’t include much apologizing, The Post has learned.
In fact, Griffin’s name and Mamdani’s “creepy” stunt — where he stood outside the Citadel chief’s penthouse to brag about taxing the rich — never came up in the confabs Monday with two of the biggest CEOs on Mamdani’s agenda, Jamie Dimon, the chief of mega bank JP Morgan and David Solomon, the CEO of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs.
Don’t blame our Marxist mayor for ignoring the obvious — that his social media spot targeting Griffin isn’t just bad policy, since it will drive away the investors the city needs, it’s also dangerous given the recent spate of violence directed at the CEO class by leftists.
No, point the finger at Dimon and Solomon for being too timid to even gently remind Mamdani that his rhetoric is making the city increasingly uninhabitable for business — not just theirs but anyone who employs working class people in the five boroughs.
Yes, I know both are two of the city’s biggest employers, and you can make the case they have a lot to lose.
But they lost so much already, and their years of acquiescence to the loons in city and state government has just made them an increasingly bigger target for taxes, welfare-state schemes and the defund the police policies that put their middle-class employees at risk.
And as they say in boxing, they had Mamdani on the ropes.
The highly anticipated meetings were set up last month by Mamdani’s staff after the business advocacy group, the Partnership for New York City, explained that his social media spot about Griffin wasn’t...
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Let them live with it and don’t bail them out. I’m OK for NYC to become Newark NJ.
These CEOs can’t just make a public stand here. Their companies have underwritten hundreds of billions of dollars on commercial loans in that city, so they have to pretend everything is just fine even if their ultimate goal is to walk away from the place.
They are already shifting their businesses out of New York. So what difference would it make? Sometimes, it’s just best to let an idiot walk themselves off the cliff.
Make no mistake. Wall Street titans funded his campaign and are fully behind him.
A deranged lefty left terrorist killed CEO Brian Thompson.
Nobody wants to be the next target for extermination.
They just pick up and leave.
Why do these rich guys want to be the last rat to abandon a sinking ship? Leave early and avoid the rush.
Dimon just opened a 60 story, 4 billion dollar building in NYC, Hahahaha! He has little choice “good and hard”
Solomon and Dimon are established and are at the top. They may not move but it is doubtful they will be making any new large investments within NYC. The real problem is the thousands of small to moderate investors who are not investing private capital in the high tax, regulation heavy, hostile to capitalism socialist governed urban enclaves like Mamdani’s NYC. Without constant new investment , an entity declines and rots. Mamdani’s only real hope is that the Democrats ride the backlash of the Iran war to national power in ‘26 and ‘28. Then they will force hardworking decent Americans to subsidize their bankrupt urban power bases.
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