Trump threatens to cut off New York City funds if Mamdani 'doesn't behave'
Source: The Guardian
Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to cut New York City off from federal funds if favored mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, doesnt behave himself should he be elected.
Mamdani, meanwhile, denied that he was as the president said a communist. But he reaffirmed his commitment to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers while saying: I dont think that we should have billionaires.
In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Trump argued that a Mamdani victory was inconceivable because he perceived the candidate to be a pure communist.
He added: Lets say this if he does get in, Im going to be president, and hes going to have to do the right thing, or theyre not getting any money. Hes got to do the right thing or theyre not getting any money.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/trump-zohran-mamdani-nyc-funds

DinahMoeHum
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SSJVegeta
(998 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,338 posts)The prick will only politically damage himself and his rethuglyian party even more than he already has. The only thing he can't damage is his reputation, seein how it's sitting at ZERO... unless theoretically he can go negative??
Trueblue1968
(18,616 posts)#TrumpWillDestroyOurCountry #TrumpIsTheAntiChrist #LockUpTrump
and ..... It is time to French Revolution DonOLD tRump !!!!!!!!
HarryM
(395 posts)And have used the same words. I would not say he is guilty of treason, but he is guilty of High Treason. His actions in plain sight prove this.
BTW- I am having a bit of a difficult time deciding between a French Revolution Solution️ or a Fargo solution.
Permanut
(7,227 posts)Vinca
(52,305 posts)Justice matters.
(8,509 posts)The convicted idiot doesn't care about the taxpayers money since he doesn't pay any.
DENVERPOPS
(12,776 posts)If he doesn't get his way, he acts like a mean, nasty, spoiled rotten, toddler...........
FloridaBlues
(4,575 posts)jgmiller
(577 posts)Mamdani will just take it as a challenge, Trump isn't even a very smart bully. Any good bully knows you only threaten the weak not the ones that are stronger or crazier than you.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,338 posts)vapor2
(2,605 posts)so f**king sick of his bully tactics and the lies and the sadism
HarryM
(395 posts)The right thing is having a brown neck from having ones head up so far that they dont just get a brown nose.
Torchlight
(4,909 posts)and is just going back to the same old well he he uses otherwise- empty bullying, weak coersion, and flaccid threats,
2MuchNoise
(246 posts)Scrivener7
(56,193 posts)slightlv
(5,934 posts)Who does he think he is? He has nothing to do with NYC, nor actually, any other city, county, or state. He's once again giving backhanded coded language that voting is off-the-table. Mamdani was elected by majority vote. trump may not like it, but (unlike De Santis) he can't just kick him out of his duly elected seat. And the courts are already ruling against him for exploiting and blackmailing companies, individuals, etc. with threats just like this. But, more than the possibility trump will take NYC funds and spend them elsewhere instead... I just think it's more code words for "don't worry about voting anymore. It won't make any difference to you... phrases like these he's used often in the near past.)
greblach
(281 posts)And yet the president of University of Virginia resigned to nominally save jobs, research funds, etc. of UVA under a precisely dated threat by El Taco Grande...
bluestarone
(19,914 posts)MORE reason to support him!!
republianmushroom
(20,412 posts)Lets say this if he does get in, Im going to be president, and hes going to have to do the right thing, or theyre not getting any money. Hes got to do the right thing or theyre not getting any money. so say trump.
bdamomma
(68,675 posts)Felon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gimpyknee
(243 posts)Oeditpus Rex
(41,933 posts)do "behave himself" and "do the right thing" mean?
Ah, but as always with The Felon, we won't know until he's triggered. And he's so easily triggered.
The words he used are the same ones acparent uses with a 6-year-old. They're undoubtedly tattooed on his memory.
Buddyzbuddy
(1,114 posts)You allowed this scum to run rampant amongst humans with the full power and then some, of the United States of America. This is the America you envisioned when you gave him full immunity. There needs to be a reckoning. How could you possibly defend your decisions with a straight face. Sometimes I wish, never mind.
Karasu
(1,497 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,501 posts)Attilatheblond
(6,488 posts)Cut off the $ and then blame the guy who isn't Christian or Jewish. Yeah, it tracks.
MIButterfly
(700 posts)I am so sick of you.
BidenRocks
(1,736 posts)he should change his to 'Fuck Off'.
Then he can say the world is saying my name.
In regard to the OP. Fuck Off chump!
OldBaldy1701E
(8,182 posts)To rich people.
And, only to rich people.
Martin68
(26,050 posts)fujiyamasan
(343 posts)That boy better behave himself
Or that dog better behave itself. Id imagine hed use this, given his hatred of dogs.