Minutes After Mamdani’s Victory, White House Post Ignites Controversy Over New York’s New Mayor

<p>A political storm erupted late Tuesday after the White House&rsquo;s official X account declared, &ldquo;Trump is your President,&rdquo; moments after Democrat Zohran Mamdani was elected the next Mayor of New York City, a result widely viewed as a major political blow for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.</p>
<p>Mamdani&rsquo;s victory was historic on multiple fronts. The Democrat defeated Republican Curtis Sliwa and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who had re-entered the race after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, to become New York&rsquo;s first Muslim mayor.</p>
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<p>But celebrations were soon overshadowed by a fiery online exchange between the White House and Trump himself. The post appeared to echo Trump&rsquo;s earlier warning that federal funding to New York could be slashed if what he described as a &ldquo;communist&rdquo; candidate took power.</p>
<p>&ldquo;If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Doubling down, the President added, &ldquo;It can only get worse with a Communist at the helm, and I don&rsquo;t want to send, as President, good money after bad.&rdquo; He labelled Mamdani&rsquo;s leadership a &ldquo;Complete and Total Economic and Social Disaster.&rdquo;</p>
<p>As voting got underway, Trump&rsquo;s rhetoric grew even sharper. He accused Mamdani of being a &ldquo;self-professed Jew hater&rdquo; and said that &ldquo;any Jewish person who votes for him is stupid.&rdquo; The remarks, which came just hours before polls opened, further inflamed tensions in a race already fraught with debates over religion, identity, and foreign policy.</p>
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<p>Trump also alleged that Mamdani &ldquo;hates Israel,&rdquo; claiming that Jewish voters who backed him were &ldquo;betraying their own community.&rdquo;</p>
<p>For Mamdani, the election marks a historic moment. He not only becomes New York&rsquo;s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor, but also the youngest mayor in over a century. Born in Uganda to parents of Indian origin, Mamdani is also the first naturalised immigrant to hold the office since Abraham Beame in the 1970s.</p>
<p>The race&rsquo;s final stretch was marked by surprising political manoeuvres. On the eve of the election, Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, received an unexpected endorsement &mdash; not from his fellow Democrat, but from Trump himself. The President&rsquo;s support for Cuomo over Sliwa reflected his determination to block Mamdani&rsquo;s path to City Hall at any cost.</p>