Donald Trump recently gave an interview to Fox News, in which he described a 33-year-old Democrats candidate for the mayor of New York as a real communist. He added that Zohran Mamdani would have to behave properly, or the city would not get money from the federal budget.
– Let's say so, if he wins, I will be president and he will have to behave properly, otherwise they will not get any money. He must act properly – Trump announced. According to “Guardian”, only over $ 100 billion went to New York last year. As part of various programs, including as part of social assistance, healthcare, infrastructure, education or housing support.
Donald Trump threatens the mayor's candidate. Zohran Mamdani answers
Zohran Mamdani, in response to Trump's allegations, denied that he was a communist, and noted that his goal as a socialist democrat is to fight social inequalities. The politician declares himself as a democratic socialist and belongs to America's democratic socialists, but he starts in elections on behalf of the Democratic Party.
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Mamdani has already announced that after election to the position he would raise taxes to the richest residents of the city. – I don't think we should have billionaires – that's so much money at the time of such unevenness. We need more equality in our city, state and country – he said in the program “Meet the Press” of the NBC station.
Donald Trump, also referring to Mamdani's proposals, which include Opposition to the federal immigration policy and a call to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel Binjamin Netanyahu for war crimes, he called him a “radical leftist madman.” – It's shocking. I never thought that a socialist could gain such a position in this country – said the US president.
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Zohran Mamdani won the democratic party nominated on June 24, when he defeated the former governor Andrew Cuomo. A young politician has support, among others Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Berni Sanders, although among the more centric members of the party is still a reserve figure.
