By Molly Claire Goddard
12:24pm PDT, Jul 11, 2025
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Donald Trump is threatening to take over New York City if
Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor. When the president was asked during a recent press briefing about the possibility of the self-described democratic socialist becoming the city's leader, Trump claimed he would have the federal government take over the Big Apple.
Keep reading to see what exactly the Republican leader said about the matter…MORE:
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When Donald Trump was pressed about Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral primary, he made it clear he was not enthralled with the young progressive. "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," he said. "New York City will run properly. I'm going to bring New York back. I love New York. We're going to straighten out New York. … Maybe we're going to have to straighten it out from Washington." Trump continued to rant, "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."
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Donald Trump claimed Gristedes CEO John Catsimatidis called him because he's worried Zohran Mamdani will try to take over his stores and turn them into community food banks. "He's a disaster. He's got the Democrat nomination because that shows you where the Democrats have gone," Trump said of Mamdani. "He actually wants to take over the grocery stores of John Catsimatidis. He actually called me the other day, he's concerned his stores are going to be taken from him."
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Donald Trump also shared his opinions on other candidates in the New York City mayoral race. "[Andrew] Cuomo does have capability," the former star of The Apprentice said. "He's running, but he got knocked out [of the Democratic primary by Zohran Mamdani]. You have Eric Adams, the current mayor, you have Cuomo and you have Curtis Silwa — and Curtis runs every four years. He seems to be a fixture on the running scale." As far as Mamdani is concerned, Trump said he is "not very capable, in my opinion."
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Donald Trump's Vice President J.D. Vance recently spoke out against Zohran Mamdani, claiming his recent primary victory "drives home just how much the voters in each of the respective parties have changed." Said Vance, "If President Trump's victory in 2024 was rooted in a broad working and middle-class coalition, Mamdani's coalition is almost the inverse of that. This is a guy who won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers and especially both young and highly-educated New Yorkers, but he was weakest among Black voters and weakest among those without a college degree. That's an interesting coalition. Maybe it works in the New York Democratic primary. I don't think it works particularly well in the United States at large."
