Zohran Mamdani has responded to Donald Trump after the president threatened to deport the Democratic nominee for New York Mayor for being a “Communist Lunatic” on Wednesday. In a statement posted on social media, the mayoral candidate wrote: “The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city. His 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.” Mamdani added that New Yorkers “would not accept this intimidation” and that voters would “resoundingly reject” both Trump and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams’ authoritarian rhetoric in November. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to Indian parents, has lived in the U.S. since he was seven-years-old and legally became an American citizen in 2018.
