Donald Trump said as the president he will have to arrest Zohran Mamdani if he becomes the New York mayor and then blocks ICE from doing its work. Mamdani has won the democratic primary and to become the New York mayor, he will have to win the general election in November. But Trump has already threatened that he will cut federal funds to NYC, arrest Mamdani — if the socialist does not cooperate with the Trump administration, if and when he becomes the NYC mayor. Trump was asked about Zohran Mamdani’s election promise that he would defy ICE and would not allow ICE to arrest criminal aliens in New York City. “Well then we’ll have just to arrest him. Look, we don’t need a communist in this country but if we have one, I’m going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation. We send him money, we send him all the things that he needs to run a government and by the way, they get already about three times what you get. If you look at per capita, Florida gets one-third of what New York gets,” Trump said as he hosted an immigration roundtable ar New Florida Detention Facility.“A lot of people are saying he (Mamdani) is here illegally. You know we are going to look over everything. And ideally, he’s going to turn out to be much less than a communist but right now he’s a communist. That’s not a socialist,” Trump said.Mamdani earlier reacted to Donald Trumo calling him a communist and said the president wants to distract from what he’s fighting for. “I’ve already had to start to get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I’m from, who I am,” Mamdani said on Mee the Press on June 29. “He wants to distract from what I’m fighting for,” Mamdani said. “I’m fighting for the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since then betrayed.”Trump earlier said Mamdani would be “very unsuccessful” if he tries to keep New York a sanctuary city. “If he does get in, I’m going to be president and he’s going to have to do the right thing or they’re not getting any money. He’s got to do the right thing,” Trump said. Trump said he would not publicly back a candidate in the race, which along with Mamdani, Cuomo and Adams includes a third independent candidate and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.“Whoever is the mayor of New York is going to have to behave themselves or the federal government is coming down very tough on them financially,” Trump said.
