WASHINGTON — President Trump threatened Tuesday to make use of federal energy to grab management of New York Metropolis if “communist” Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor.
“If a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places where we have to,” Trump instructed The Put up throughout a Cupboard assembly.
“New York City will run properly. I’m going to bring New York back. I love New York,” the president added.
“We’re going to straighten out New York. It’s going to — maybe we’re going to have to straighten it out from Washington.”
Trump, who in his first time period threatened to yank federal funds from the Massive Apple for allegedly tolerating lawlessness, didn’t establish what authorities he would possibly invoke.
“We’re going to do something for New York. I can’t tell you what yet, but we’re going to make New York great again. Also, we’re going to make it great again with the country,” he mentioned.
Trump added that “I’m not getting involved” when requested if Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa ought to drop out of the race.
“[Andrew] Cuomo does have capability. He’s running, but he got knocked out [of the Democratic primary]. You have Eric Adams, the current mayor, you have Cuomo, and you have Curtis Silwa? And Curtis runs every, every four years. He seems to be a fixture on the running scale,” Trump mentioned earlier than calling Mamdani “not very capable, in my opinion.”
“He’s a disaster … He’s got the Democrat nomination because that shows you where the Democrats have gone. He actually wants to take over the grocery stores of John Catsimatidis,” Trump mentioned, referring to the Gristedes chief.
“[Catsimatidis] actually called me the other day, he’s concerned, his stores are going to be taken from him.”
