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New York’s Indian-origin Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Thursday called US President Donald Trump “desperate,” accusing him of launching personal attacks to divert attention from what Mamdani said as Trump’s “war on working people.”
“Donald Trump said that I should be arrested. He said that I should be deported. He said that I should be denaturalised. And he said those things about me … because he wants to distract from what I fight for,” Mamdani said.
“I fight for the same people that he said he was fighting for. This is the same president who ran on a campaign of cheaper groceries, who ran on a campaign about easing the suffocating cost of living crisis. And ultimately, it is easier for him to fan the flames of division than to acknowledge the ways in which he has betrayed those working-class Americans.”
The president, who has a history of spewing sometimes vile insults at rivals, has in recent days escalated his attacks against the 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist. Trump has threatened to arrest Mamdani, to deport him and even to take over the country’s largest city if he wins the general election in November.
“As President of the United States, I’m not going to let this Communist Lunatic destroy New York. Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards,” Trump wrote in an ominous message on his Truth Social site Wednesday morning. “I’ll save New York City, and make it ‘Hot’ and ‘Great’ again, just like I did with the Good Ol’ USA!”
(This is a developing story)
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