In a bold intervention in the New York City mayoral race, U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed independent candidate Andrew Cuomo on Truth Social Monday evening, calling on voters to reject Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani to safeguard the city from “radical” leadership. “Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job,” Trump posted. “He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!”
🚨 BREAKING: Trump just told New York to “reject Ugandan communist Zohran Mamdani,” warning the city will “end up with a COMMUNIST mayor.”
He even claimed Mamdani “posed with a terrorist.”
They’re not running a campaign — they’re running a smear war built on fear, lies, and… pic.twitter.com/qybZHUZWLR
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) October 21, 2025
Trump, a Queens native, warned he would limit federal funding to the “very minimum” if Mamdani wins, echoing Sunday’s CBS “60 Minutes” interview where he labeled the 34-year-old democratic socialist a “communist”—a charge Mamdani rejects, quipping he’s “kind of like a Scandinavian politician, only browner.” “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York,” Trump said. “Because if you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money.”
Cuomo, former Democratic governor and Trump critic, downplayed the nod: “He’s not endorsing me. He’s opposing Mamdani.” He positioned himself as the experienced foil to Trump, boasting, “I fought Donald Trump” during COVID-19 clashes. Mamdani fired back: “The MAGA movement’s embrace of Andrew Cuomo is reflective of Donald Trump’s understanding that this would be the best mayor for him—not for New Yorkers.” A Mamdani victory would make him NYC’s first Muslim mayor and youngest in over a century.
Polls show Mamdani leading Cuomo, with Republican Curtis Sliwa trailing. Trump dismissed Sliwa, saying a vote for him “is a vote for Mamdani,” and slammed Mamdani as worse than ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio. Amid Trump’s National Guard deployments to Democratic cities and funding threats to non-cooperative jurisdictions, NYC received $7.4 billion in federal aid this fiscal year.
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