— November 5, 2024 Americans regained their government, we regained our sovereignty. We lost some of it yesterday in New York, but we'll get through it, don't worry about it, Trump said during a business forum in Miami organized on the anniversary of his presidential election win.
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“If you want to see what the Democrats in Congress want to do to America, look at the results of yesterday's election in New York, where their party installed a communist as mayor of the largest city in the country,” the president continued.
— I said we would never have a socialist elected to any position in our country. And I was right. We jumped over the socialist and instead we have a communist. It didn't work out very well, he emphasized, referring to Tuesday's New York mayoral elections, which were won by the Democratic candidate.
He noted that “for many years” he has been warning that his “opponents are bent on transforming America into a communist Cuba or a socialist Venezuela.” “The Democrats are so extreme that Miami will soon be a place of refuge for those fleeing communism in New York,” Trump said.
Trump: As long as I govern, the US will not become communist
Then he added, “Where do you live?” In New York, but I'm trying to leave because I don't want to live in a communist regime. After the election results, the decision facing Americans could not be simpler: the choice is between communism and common sense, the US president continued. He announced that as long as he was head of state, the US “will not become communist in any way, shape or form.”
At the end of his speech, Trump said that “communists, Marxists, socialists, globalists had their chance and they brought nothing but disaster.” — Now we'll see how the communist will fare in New York. We'll see how it turns out. We will help him. We want New York to succeed. Maybe we'll help him a little, he said.
The president has previously called Mamdani a communist and threatened to cut off some federal funding to New York if he won. Mamdani, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, said on Wednesday that the White House had not contacted him since his victory. He assured that he was open to a conversation with Trump and that he would like to discuss with the president how they could work together for the benefit of New Yorkers.
