Vice President JD Vance (Meet The Press)Vice President J.D. Vance launched a scathing critique Saturday against New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, accusing him of a profound “lack of gratitude” toward the United States. The remarks, delivered at the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award Dinner, came in response to Mamdani’s recent Independence Day statement describing the U.S. as “contradictory” and “unfinished.”
Vance specifically targeted Mamdani’s family history, highlighting that his father, Mahmood Mamdani, fled violent racial hatred in Uganda under dictator Idi Amin in 1972.
“There is no gratitude in those words. No sense of owing something to this land or the people who turned its wilderness into the most powerful nation on Earth,” Vance asserted in a clip released by the White House.
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The Vice President questioned Mamdani’s perspective, asking, “Who the hell does he think he is?” for “daring to insult the country that took his family in as refugees.” Vance emphasized the generosity of the U.S. in providing a haven from the kind of ethnic conflict Mamdani’s family experienced.
Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, had stated, “America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.”
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Mamdani’s policy proposals for New York City include rent freezes, government-run programs like buses and grocery stores, and increased taxes on what he described as “richer and whiter” neighborhoods.
He has received endorsements from notable figures like Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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