Mamdani takes aim at Trump after victory

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00:00Now that candidate Zoram Mamdani has become mayor-elect Zoram Mamdani,

00:05the tension between the Democratic Socialists soon to be in charge of the Big Apple and the

00:09president has officially taken off. Mamdani fired the first shots Tuesday night in his victory speech.

00:16New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants.

00:25And as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when I say this,

00:37to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

00:42And the president predictably responded.

00:45The communist, Marxist, socialists and globalists had their chance and they

00:49delivered nothing but disaster. And now let's see how a communist does in New York. We're going to

00:55see how that works out. Mamdani has promised to leverage the courts to battle any attempts by

01:00the president to wield federal power in New York City by doing things like cutting funding or

01:05sending in the National Guard. And while criticism of Mamdani from Republicans is to be expected,

01:10he also got a bit of unsolicited advice from within his own party. Reliable left-wing

01:16commentator Van Jones said this on CNN after Mamdani's victory speech. I felt like there's a

01:21little bit of a character switch here where the warm, open, embracing guy that's close to working

01:28with people. I was not on stage tonight.