Trump: Any Jewish voter who supports Mamdani is a 'stupid person'
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at his polling site in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump, who a day earlier endorsed Andrew Cuomo for New York City mayor, on Tuesday posted that any Jewish voter who casts a ballot for Zohran Mamdani “is a stupid person!!!"
Trump wrote on his Truth Social network: "Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!”
The president's latest post comes as New York City voters are going to the polls to choose between Mamdani, the front-runner in the race and the Democratic nominee; Cuomo, a third-party candidate and the state’s ex-governor; and Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee and founder of the Guardian Angels crime patrol.
Dora Pekec, a Mamdani spokeswoman, didn’t immediately respond to a text message seeking comment about Trump’s latest post.
Mamdani, a longtime supporter of the Palestinian cause and critic of Israel, has rejected claims that his beliefs are akin to antisemitism and said that as mayor he would protect all New Yorkers, including Jewish New Yorkers, whom he’s been meeting with over the past year.
“I have really appreciated those conversations that I’ve had with rabbis, with Jewish leaders, elected officials across the five boroughs,” Mamdani told ABC News last week. “And those are conversations that have not only informed my understanding of what it means to root out antisemitism across the city, which we must do, but also the many different ways that we have to do it.”
Matthew Chayes, a Newsday reporter since 2007, covers New York City.
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