Donald Trump Suddenly Turns on Zohran Mamdani: ‘Destroying New York’

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-criticizes-zohran-mamdani-new-york-policies-11841539

44 Comments

  1. Unusual-State1827 on

    The president posted, “Sadly, Mayor Mamdani is DESTROYING New York! It has no chance! The United States of America should not contribute to its failure. It will only get WORSE. The TAX, TAX, TAX Policies are SO WRONG. People are fleeing. They must change their ways, AND FAST. History has proven, THIS “STUFF” JUST DOESN’T WORK. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT”

  2. MissionCreeper on

    So the tax on people who own luxury apartments and don’t live in the city is *checks notes* causing these people to flee the city they don’t live in?

  3. Trump must still own some properties in NY.

    Stay upset, grandpa. Mamdani will make sure your taxes are helping people long after you’re dead and in the dirt.

  4. baronvonsmartass on

    I’m sure all Mamdani has to do is stop by the Whitehouse and show him how it will benefit New York. Trump will be okay with it after he leaves. Just like any other time Mamdani’s paid him a visit.

    He totally has the guy’s number.

  5. masstransience on

    Maybe Mamdani should just call it a tariff instead of a tax since Trump loves tariffs.

  6. BadgeOfDishonour on

    “I’m taxing the rich of NYC!”

    *Suddenly Trump turns on Mamdani*.

    Huh. Can’t…. imagine… why.

    Tax the orange off of that pedo shit-gibbon, Mamdani.

  7. Extension-Society455 on

    Because he’s taxing rich people for owning homes they don’t live in.

    Ruin New York more, Z!

  8. mantis_tobaggan-md on

    He’s just jealous of Mamdani’s star power. It’s something that miserable old turd spent his whole life trying to buy.

  9. ilulillirillion on

    Trump: “We can’t have these programs nationally, it’s too much, the states should do it.”

    Also Trump: “How dare you”

    I’m tired of the “fleeing” scare tactic. It’s used to fearmonger the dumb; it’s *supposed* to make certain demographics flee! We want private equity to sell and leave so that the actual people can touch some of the actual assets of the communities they actually live in.

  10. FoxyInTheSnow on

    He just fucking turned on a very popular Pope; I don’t think his bromance with a young, popular Muslim socialist was on a very solid foundation.

  11. I believe there’s been multiple stories of a lot of Russian oligarchs and other foreign companies buying penthouses in trumps tower. No one lives there, and they’re all overvalued for money laundering.

  12. CrimsonHeretic on

    It just depends what the last person he talked to said to him.

    The dude has zero stances or principles. A complete fucking moron.

  13. mistertickertape on

    As a New York, DT can fuck right off. The city is safer now than it has been since the 1940s and occupancies are close to 1% due to a lack of housing and because people keep moving here. All of this is because people that own property worth greater than $5m that do not live here will have to pay more in property tax. There are THOUSANDS of apartments that are literal safety deposit boxes that are never occupied. Trump Tower is full of them. Ken Griffin (noted Trump fellatio fan) has a condo worth $253,000,000 that he never even visits. So yeah, tax the fuck out of these people.

  14. Careful_Trifle on

    Surprise, it’s because mamdani is going to charge billionaires taxes for the real estate they’re hoarding.

    This will make it harder for Trump to take bribes via selling overpriced properties and collecting fees on them. It will also create a more specific record of who is paying him like this. 

    Remember when he sold a condo to a Russian oligarch who immediately bulldozed it? 

  15. Here’s what I’ve learned about Trump.

    If he’s mad at you, name calling you, insulting you, threatening you, or accusing you of destroying something, then it almost certainly means you are actually doing something good.

    This guy is like the most stereotypical movie villain of all time.

  16. OpticalPrime35 on

    At this point if Trump turns on you and hates you it is a strong indicator that you are doing the right thing

  17. I don’t get these MF’ing billionaires not willing to pay a cent. I just heard 88 major us corporations didn’t pay any taxes. I paid a lot. What the fuck.

  18. MoonageDayscream on

    I think its not just the ones who mothball fancy real estate.  There are those who actually do live there a sizable chunk of the year but their official residence is somewhere with favorable income tax laws. So now they have to decide what is more onerous,  paying the PaT tax or the NY income tax. 

  19. Dexter_McThorpan on

    Sounds like someone just realized how much his property is about to cost him.

    Doesn’t he still owe NY about a half billion dollars on that corporate fraud stuff? Man, it’d be hilarious if the city mandates official appraisals of his stuff.

  20. essenceofpurity on

    Trump is mad because he owns property in NYC, and will have to pay more in taxes.

  21. trump thought being nice to mamdani would make it so mamdani would be on his side, because trump takes the side of anyone who’s nice to him, and now he’s upset because mamdani appears to have a spine and isn’t swayed by just being nice to him

  22. It’s actually good that Trump is reacting to this. It highlights the lax taxation of the rich including Trump. The beauty of this thing is it’s not even targeted at Trump. It targets all of them, so the usual Trump defense of being targeted falls flat.

  23. I think taxing the second home valued at more than $5 million for people who don’t even live in NYC is a good idea.

  24. PristineMinute4206 on

    I’m literally in NYC visiting right now and used to live here. I can assure you it does not seem at all destroyed lol.

    Actually seems way better than when I lived here. That was also during the worst parts of COVID so shit was really weird.

    One time I took the 2 train and was not only the only person in my train car, but also the only person in the adjacent 2 train cars combined.

  25. It should be noted that since the penthouse at Trump Tower is not his primary residence anymore, Trump would be subject to the proposed pied a terre tax

  26. butt_whole_milk on

    Any idea that is a step away from capitalism will be condemned by wealthy perverts. It’s time that we walk very far away from capitalism. Get em’ Zohran!

  27. propagationknowledge on

    Harder to do luxury flat money laundering schemes when your buyers are taxed on them….

  28. toodarkparkranger on

    Bro, if President Hyperbole said Godzilla was destroying New York, I’d have to assume that the big lizard was actually offering affordable housing or traffic solutions.