https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-zohran-mamdani.html

President Trump on Tuesday floated an outlandish claim that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York mayor, was an illegal immigrant and threatened to arrest him if he blocked immigration arrests in New York City.

Mr. Mamdani was born in Uganda and has lived in New York City since 1998, when he was 7 years old. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2018. If elected, Mr. Mamdani would also be the first Muslim to become mayor of New York City. There is no credible evidence to suggest Mr. Mamdani is not, or shouldn’t be, a U.S. citizen.

Mr. Trump’s attack on the mayoral candidate echoed language he has long used to lend credibility to falsehoods. “A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally,” he said of Mr. Mamdani. “We’re going to look at everything.”

When a journalist raised the possibility that Mr. Mamdani “will not allow” ICE to make immigration arrests, Mr. Trump replied, “Well then we’ll have to arrest him.”

“The president of the United States just threatened to have me arrested,” Mr. Mamdani said in a response on social media, adding that Mr. Trump’s statements “don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: If you speak up, they will come for you.”

He continued, “We will not accept this intimidation.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has so far declined to endorse Mr. Mamdani, rallied behind him after Mr. Trump’s attacks.

“I don’t care if you’re the President of the United States,” Ms. Hochul wrote on social media. “If you threaten to unlawfully go after one of our neighbors, you’re picking a fight with 20 million New Yorkers — starting with me.”

The attack was the latest effort by Mr. Trump to promote far-fetched conspiracy theories about his political opponents: He used a similar attack to falsely accuse Nikki Haley, his rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, of not being eligible for the presidency. Later that year, he falsely questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s identity as a Black woman.

And Mr. Trump’s attack against Mr. Mamdani echoed the lie that raised his profile in the Republican Party ahead of his 2016 run for president: that President Barack Obama was not legitimately elected because he was not born in the United States.

Mr. Mamdani, who ran a spirited, disciplined campaign that focused on the cost of living, has been targeted by Republicans who have painted him as a boogeyman of far-left politics and denigrated his age, his criticism of Israel and — in some instances — his religion.

Representative Andy Ogles, a hard-right Tennessee Republican, used Islamophobic language to attack Mr. Mamdani on social media last week and called for him to be deported. Other Republican lawmakers made similar attacks.

During a news conference on Monday, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, laughed when asked about Mr. Ogles’s calls for deportation and whether Mr. Trump supported them.

“I haven’t heard him say that,” she said. “I haven’t heard him call for that, but certainly he does not want this individual to be elected.”

>>1417373
>“I haven’t heard him say that,” she said. “I haven’t heard him call for that
I wonder if that’s true? Is she just so incompetent that she doesn’t know what the man she’s representing has said, or is she just pretending to be retarded? I could believe it either way, and the right loves this move.

So no evidence President Trump said that. Thanks for the reminder that left wingers are habitual liars.

>>1417375
She probably knew about it beforehand. Part of her job is to defend/deny/deflect/distract from whatever bad things Trump says or does. Her lack of a response only means she couldn't come up with something to defend him on this one.

>>1417379
Wow this post is going to age very poorly.

If you weren't born here, you are a naturalized citizen. That status can be revoked. This has been done by presidents in the past, including FDR and Ike.

Let me simplify it for you: You will lose your citizenship if you do not financially support Trump.

>>1417390
Did they tell you you'll gain citizenship if you financially support Trump?
It'd be terrible if they were scamming back the meager shillbux they're paying you

>>1417390
Looks like fresh GOP talking points just dropped

>>1417390
What a shitty country.

>>1417393
Yeah. No one in their right mind would ever want to live here. Let's educate all those fools who try to hide from ICE that they need to go back.

>>1417395
Feel free to turn yourself into ICE whenever.
Or just self deport if you don't want to waste American money.

>>1417379
The only way he didn't say it is like saying the mobsters didn't threaten you, they were just saying the neighborhood gets a little rowdy at night and you might find a brick thrown through your window without their protection.

>>1417397
So you admit you're making shit up. Cool. Let me know when you've got more than paranoid delusions.

>>1417408
>>1417379
What mental illness causes this?

>>1417410
I love how they always play it up like it’s just unbelievable that he would say such a thing. Trump accusing his political opponents of not being american and saying they should be locked up? The fevered dreams of a madman!

>>1417414
I genuinely don't understand the people who accuse the entire media spectrum both left and right of lying in collusion with one another over stories like this. But then, then are people like that who come to this board just to piss on a news story and baselessly call it a lie? It makes no sense to me and seems like a sign of mental illness.

>>1417410
All hardcore MAGA suffer from mental illnesses. It's why they're MAGA in the first place. The fat orange mental case is all bark and no bite. If he ever did try to arrest the Zohran, the shirt would hit the fan and he would give the Zohran YUGE boost. the Zohran can't run for potus, since he wasn't born here, but he can run for New York State Governor or senator

It's fascinating watching lefties assert that people who say they don't believe some event happened because there is literally no evidence of it happening are the ones with mental illness.

Oh well. Nothing to do for it but round up all the loony lefties into insane asylums.

>>1417419
Google Operation Mockingbird.
In case you don't: the CIA works closely with media agencies, which are subsequently in direct competition to the President of the United States.
Also: the CIA is the largest criminal organization in America. They make billions of dollars through illicit operations. Trump fucking with trade invariably fucks with their bottom line. Now you know.

>>1417435
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-threatens-arrest-mamdani-nyc-ice/story?id=123382676
Watch that video, apologize, then fuck off.

>>1417440
At no point did President Trump say that Zohran was an illegal alien. At no point did President Trump "threaten" Zohran. President Trump DID state that interfering with federal agents, preventing them from carrying out their duty, is a crime for which people will be arrested. That is not a "threat" it is simple fact.

Stop Lying.

>>1417456
>Trump says things
>"No he didn't!"
>get video of Trump saying those things
>"NO HE DIDN'T!!"
Shocker.
I also appreciate how you NEED to call him President every time. Because his flaccid old dick is actually that far up your ass.

>>1417458
It would be easier to take you seriously if you didn't lie all the time.

>>1417456
>interfering with federal agents, preventing them from carrying out their duty, is a crime for which people will be arrested.
Yet federal agents violating the law themselves is not? Fuck off.

>>1417460
he didn't mean trump was literally fucking you in the ass, esl shill. you should study more

>>1417458
I call President Trump President Trump because that is the proper term of address. Same as fir President Biden, President Obama, President Busch, President Clinton, etc.

Oh, by the way, you still haven't provided a direct quote of President Trump stating Zohran is an illegal alien. So, Y'know, you're still nothing but a bald faced liar.

>>1417468
> “A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally,” he said of Mr. Mamdani. “We’re going to look at everything.”
If you don't think this is a threat, you must think mob bosses just really like having people taken care of in an affectionate sense.

>>1417393
And yet you illegals keep flooding the border en masse like there's no tomorrow. Foreigner can't go five minutes without obsessing over America I suppose

>>1417469
Funny. None of that quoted text spells Mr. Mamdani is definitely an illegal alien.

Keep lying, I'm sure it'll work out for you in the long run.

>>1417474
What is he lying about?

>>1417495
What is he lying about?

>>1417495
>I'm sure mr capone has never harmed a single soul. He just wanted those people to be taken care of, he never said he wanted them dead.

>>1417502
Capone was unironically responsible for the creation of expiration dates on milk because children kept getting sick.

>>1417497
Is the government promising to enforce the law a threat?

>>1417506
Did Trump make up some bullshit about Mamdani not being a US citizen and threaten to deport him or not?

>>1417507
If he lied on his naturalization forms then he committed naturalization fraud. Being a communist is one of the things that excludes you from naturalization.
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/n-400.pdf
>5.b.
>Have you ever:
>Been a member of, involved in, or in any way associated with any Communist or totalitarian party anywhere in the world?
>Advocated (supported and promoted) any of the following, or been a member of, involved in, or in any way associated with any group anywhere in the world that advocated any of the following:
>>World communism;
Bro is over here openly talking about seizing the means of production.

>>1417512
>We're unironically doing mcarthyism again

>>1417514
>it's the government's fault I lied to become a citizen
Comedy

That bullshit didn't work with Obama, Donny, and it's not going to work here.

>>1417507
>>1417515
see >>1417497

>>1417507
No.

>>1417379
It's on video

>>1417512
He is not a member of the Communist party nor has he provided material support to world communism, he just thinks new yorkers deserve child care and millionaires can afford slightly more in taxes

>>1417548
Yes, retard, that's what the story is about.

>>1417551
completely disqualifying! How dare New Yorkers be able to access their life potential by having the very children needed to perpetuate society *cared for* by said society while they contribute to the economy and daily life of New York!

And to think they want to ensure people that are incredibly well-off are paying back some of what they take?

Absolutely disgusting communism!

Nah just kidding, take anyone with 100M+ and throw them in a volcano. Simple as.

>>1417551
Yeah he just repeats Marx for the memes

>>1417562
If that makes him an automatic commie then what does it say about Trump when he quotes Mussolini?

>>1417553
>>1417549

He did not say Zohran is an illegal alien. You are lying.

>>1417567
I'm sure “A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally" means nothing.

>>1417568
No no, don't you see?
He didn't literally say those exact words in that exact order, so you lose.
The President of the United States is allowed to completely fabricate lies about his political enemies and hide them behind the caveat "A lot of people are saying". That is perfectly acceptable.
But you, as a random anonymous poster on 4chan, are held to a higher standard than the president in the eyes of his cult.

>>1417564
Trump is a neofascist, but he was born an American citizen. He didn't need to go through naturalization.

>>1417570
Trump's eligible for deportation.
Grandfather arrived and provided a fake name.
Wife is an immigrant
Anchor baby
Whole family imported in afterwards on family visas.
Deport the whole lot. He's not eligible to be president.

>>1417571
Ex Post Facto laws are prohibited by the US constitution.

>>1417574
Its not unconstitutional if you're the president :P