President Donald Trump’s taken time out of desperately trying to corral his party ahead of a knife-edge vote on his spending plans to swing a bizarre sideswipe at Democratic New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani. “As President of the United States, I’m not going to let this Communist lunatic destroy New York,” he wrote in an early-morning Truth Social post on Wednesday. “Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards. I’ll save New York City, and make it “Hot” and “Great” again, just like I did with the Good Ol’ USA!” Weird superhero overtones aside, it was not immediately clear what exactly the president meant by making NYC “Hot” again, given the Big Apple’s currently sweating its way through one of its notoriously sweltering summers, with forecasted highs of more than 90°F in the coming days. Nor is it the first time he’s taken aim at the left-wing mayoral candidate, threatening to arrest Mamdani earlier this week if he interferes with federal deportation efforts across the nation’s second city.
