{"id":140284,"date":"2025-08-12T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140284\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:03:22","slug":"mamdani-starts-five-borough-tour-calling-himself-trumps-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140284\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani starts five-borough tour, calling himself Trump’s ‘worst nightmare’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani<\/a> is spending the week touring all five city boroughs, in which he’ll highlight how President Donald Trump is and will continue to cause great harm to New Yorkers. <\/p>\n

On Monday, Mamdani spoke in Manhattan. Tuesday he will be in Brooklyn, Wednesday in Staten Island, Thursday in the Bronx, and on Friday in Queens. Mamdani’s tour comes just a week after he positioned himself as the strongest candidate to oppose Trump’s agenda, calling himself Trump’s “worst nightmare.”<\/p>\n

“My administration would be Donald Trump\u2019s worst nightmare,” Mamdani said during a rally last week. “You don\u2019t need to take me at my word or take Andrew Cuomo at his. You need only look at the actions of the Trump administration since I won the Democratic primary.”<\/p>\n

Since Mamdani won the Democratic primary in June, Trump has threatened to deport Mamdani, a Ugandan native, as well as to arrest him if he intervenes with ICE agents’ raids. He has even threatened a federal take over of the city.<\/p>\n

“How else can you describe a president who has proposed denaturalizing the Democratic nominee of New York City?” Mamdani said. “How else can you describe a president who has sought to entertain suggestions of deporting me, of arresting me, of taking control of the city over the will of New Yorkers? Those are the actions of a president who is afraid of the fact that I will actually deliver in a manner where he has simply betrayed.”<\/p>\n

As Mamdani presents himself as the strongest candidate to push back on Trump, he continues to tie his opponents: independent candidates Mayor Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, former Democratic governor of New York, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, as Trump’s allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is that the president has three candidates in this race \u2014 one that he\u2019s directly been in touch with, another that he bailed out of legal trouble and now functionally controls, and the final one literally being a member of the same Republican Party,\u201d Mr. Mamdani said in a recent radio interview.<\/p>\n

Mamdani points to news reports, which Trump and Cuomo both deny, that Cuomo spoke with Trump on the phone about the election. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe see far too many parallels between Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo, far too many stories that make clear that both administrations have been characterized by corruption, by a sense of impunity,\u201d Mamdani told reporters Monday at the offices of 1199SEIU.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cuomo has distanced himself from the president, saying while he may have had a working relationship with Trump as governor that \u201cnobody has fought with Trump more” than him. He said that unlike Mamdani, he would not be steamrolled by Trump and wouldn’t risk New York City losing federal funding. <\/p>\n

\u201cTrump will flatten him like a pancake,\u201d Cuomo posted on X. \u201cIn 2020, Trump sent the National Guard into other states. Not New York. There\u2019s only one person in this race who can stand up to Trump: the one who already has, successfully and effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams’ office has also criticized Mamdani for creating an adversary relationship with Todd Shapiro, a spokesman for Adams saying that a mayor was \u201csupposed to work with presidents \u2014 not wage war against them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTurning the mayor\u2019s office into a partisan battlefield might score headlines, but it costs New Yorkers opportunities, resources and progress,\u201d Shapiro said. <\/p>\n

Have questions, concerns or tips? Send them to Elaine at emallon@sbgtv.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is spending the week touring all five…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,83811,14732,5706,10889,5708,14090,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,277,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-140284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-boroughs","10":"tag-candidate","11":"tag-cuomo","12":"tag-democratic","13":"tag-mamdani","14":"tag-mayoral","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-trump","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115017115483535771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}