{"id":30313,"date":"2025-07-08T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=30313"},"modified":"2025-07-08T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:22:40","slug":"trump-threatens-federal-takeover-of-nyc-if-communist-zohran-mamdani-wins-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=30313","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens federal takeover of NYC if \u2018communist\u2019 Zohran Mamdani wins mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump threatened Tuesday to use federal power to seize control of New York City if\u00a0\u201ccommunist\u201d Zohran Mamdani\u00a0<\/a>is elected mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf 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,\u201d Trump told The Post during a Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n

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Trump says he loves his hometown of New York City \u2014 and might use federal power to save it.AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cNew York City will run properly. I\u2019m going to bring New York back. I love New York,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to straighten out New York. It\u2019s going to \u2014 maybe we\u2019re going to have to straighten it out from Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump, who in his first term\u00a0threatened to yank federal funds<\/a>\u00a0from the Big Apple for allegedly tolerating lawlessness, did not identify what authorities he might invoke to seize control of city operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to do something for New York. I can\u2019t tell you what yet, but we\u2019re going to make New York great again. Also, we\u2019re going to make it great again with the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump added that \u201cI\u2019m not getting involved\u201d when asked if Republican nominee\u00a0Curtis Sliwa<\/a>\u00a0should drop out of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Andrew] Cuomo does have capability. He\u2019s running, but he got knocked out [of the Democratic primary]. You have\u00a0Eric Adams<\/a>, 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,\u201d Trump said before calling Mamdani, 33, \u201cnot very capable, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a disaster \u2026 He\u2019s got the Democrat nomination because that shows you where the Democrats have gone. He actually wants to\u00a0take over the grocery stores<\/a>\u00a0of John Catsimatidis,\u201d Trump said, referring to the Gristedes chief.<\/p>\n

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Trump says Gristedes owner John Catsimatidis is concerned about the Mamdani\u2019s grocery plan.Aaron Schwartz \u2013 Pool via CNP \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201c[Catsimatidis] actually called me the other day, he\u2019s concerned, his stores are going to be taken from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

After discussing New York, Trump threatened a federal takeover of the District of Columbia, which has been self-governing since 1973.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could\u00a0run DC. I mean, we\u2019re, we\u2019re looking at DC. We don\u2019t want crime in DC. We want the city to run well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thinking about doing it, to be honest with you. We want a capital that\u2019s run flawlessly, and it wouldn\u2019t be hard for us to do it, and we\u2019ve had a good relationship with the mayor [Muriel Bowser], and we\u2019re testing it to see if it works.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Republican nominee for New York City Mayor, Curtis Sliwa, has been getting calls to drop out of the mayoral race to prevent Mamdani from winning the general election in November.Michael McWeeney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, surged to win the June 24 primary over Cuomo and polls show he\u2019s leading the pack ahead of the Nov. 4 general election.<\/p>\n

Vice President\u00a0JD Vance<\/a>\u00a0said over the weekend that Mamdani\u2019s victory \u201cdrives home just how much the voters in each of the respective parties have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf\u00a0President Trump\u2019s victory in 2024<\/a>\u00a0was rooted in a broad working and middle-class coalition, Mamdani\u2019s coalition is almost the inverse of that,\u201d Vance said in closed-door remarks Saturday in Southern California.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a guy who won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers and especially both young, and highly-educated New Yorkers, but he was weakest among black voters and weakest among those without a college degree. That\u2019s an interesting coalition. Maybe it works in the New York Democratic primary. I don\u2019t think it works particularly well in the United States at large.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump told reporters that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams can run the Big Apple while noting that Mamdani is \u201cnot very capable.\u201dStephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mamdani has the support of 35% of general election voters, followed by Cuomo at 29%,Sliwa at 16% and Adams with 14%,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0an American Pulse survey released Thursday.<\/p>\n

Adams, elected as a Democrat in 2021 and seeking re-election as an independent, broke with the Biden administration\u00a0on border enforcement after asylum seekers burdened city\u00a0resources. He later faced federal corruption charges alleging freebies such as airline\u00a0upgrades in exchange for greasing the wheels for a new Turkish consulate opening.<\/p>\n

The incumbent mayor says the case was the result of political persecution from Biden\u2019s Justice Department and the case was dropped by the Trump administraiton.<\/p>\n

Trump has offered fond words for Adams, but he has not made an endorsement in the campaign.<\/p>\n

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