Posted on 09/30/2025 5:38:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City, defended his politics in a Monday interview in response to President Trump repeatedly labeling him a “communist.”
CNN’s Erin Burnett played a compilation of clips of Trump calling Mamdani a communist and asked Mamdani directly, “Are you?”
“No. I’m a democratic socialist,” Mamdani said. “I’ve said that time and again.”
Mamdani said it reveals something about the state of American politics that Trump is dissatisfied with amplifying Mamdani’s true identity of “democratic socialist” and instead continues to call him a communist.
“I think it reflects the fact that… whereas that identity would have been enough for Donald Trump in the past, now he doesn’t even want to use that because he knows that the message of my politics is one that is connecting with New Yorkers across the five boroughs. It’s a message of dignity in each and every person’s life.”
Mamdani nodded to his comfortable lead in recent general election polling and suggested the president is going through stages of grief, as he comes to terms with the possibility that a democratic socialist might be elected his hometown mayor.
“And what we’re seeing in these clips, and what we’re seeing in what Donald Trump says, is he’s going through the many stages of grief,” Mamdani said.
“First, it’s denial that this could ever take place. Now it’s acceptance, and still, through it all, he is looking to use every tool at his disposal to help Andrew Cuomo become the next mayor of this city.”
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Exactly! A communist.
Winner, winner, cabbage dinner, comrade!
Winner, winner, cabbage dinner, comrade!
Communism and fascism are both forms of socialism. So Mamdani can call himself a socialist all he wants; that doesn’t change the fact that his proposed policies are all communist.
aka,communist
Mamdami is Sinwar’s brother just better dressed..if he were not running for mayor he would be the head of Hamas right now
Exactly what a Communist would say.
Democrat socialists are just communists waiting to get elected.
I believe that is a classic distinction without a difference. If I read Marx correctly, I think he would agree.
Just like the one that shot Kirk.
True. He’s an islamist masquerading as a commie.
Deport him back to Sudan.
The arselick can run for mayor in his home country.
So, he admits it.
President Trump: That’s what I said.
Yeah. Same thing.
An exact definition of a communist.
This is what they are while running for office.
It’s a political metamorphoses.
Islam is a war plan
East Germany was the German Democratic Socialist Republic, I think North Korea goes by a similar name. So he’s confirmed it, I guess. In any case, he’s too far left, like most of that party.
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