New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, launched a “Five Boroughs Against Trump” tour in the city. Mamdani’s tour will begin in Manhattan and continue through Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx, and Queens.
“There is no borough that will be free from Trump’s cruelty,” Mamdani said alongside Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), as per Fox News. “We will feel the pain of this legislation, whether we are in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, or Staten Island, and we will shine a light this week and every week on the costs of this vision that is coming out of Washington, D.C.”
Mamdani claimed that there are “far too many parallels between Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo,” arguing that “both administrations have been characterized by corruption, by a sense of impunity, by an inability of an executive to understand that no means no, a prioritization of the interests of billionaires over working people, and an agenda that is driven by little else beyond the retention and accumulation of power,” Mamdani said Monday.
“Donald Trump is waging a full-scale assault on American democracy, dismantling our institutions, attacking our universities and our scientific research base, using government power to serve himself and his donors, and targeting New York City because New Yorkers have always seen him for what he is – a narcissistic, wannabe dictator,” Nadler stated, declaring that New York City “needs a leader who won’t give Trump an inch, who won’t flinch or bargain away our rights.”
A spokesperson for New York City Mayor Eric Adams told The New York Times that “supposed to work with presidents — not wage war against them.”
“Turning the mayor’s office into a partisan battlefield might score headlines, but it costs New Yorkers opportunities, resources and progress,” spokesperson Todd Shapiro said.
