President Donald Trump slammed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during a Cabinet meeting. (Getty Images)
"No. 1, you have a communist running, and you shouldn't vote for him," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday. "He's a disaster. He's leading. He's got the Democrat nomination because that shows you where the Democrats have gone."
"I'm not getting involved, but I can tell you this: I used to say we will not ever be a socialist country. Right. Well, I'll say it again. We're not going to have — if a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same."
Mamdani did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Trump previously has blasted Mamdani, and threatened to arrest him if he refused to comply with federal immigration officials. Trump's remarks came after Mamdani said in June that he would halt "masked" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials from "deporting our neighbors."
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"Frankly, I've heard he's a total nut job," Trump told reporters July 1. "I think the people in New York are crazy because they go this route. I think they're crazy. We will have a communist in the for the first time, really a pure, true communist. He wants to operate the grocery stores. The department stores. What about the people that are there? I think it's crazy."
Mamdani said in a June interview with NBC News he didn’t want to condemn the term "globalize the intifada," a phrase used to back Palestinian resistance against Israel, because he didn’t want to "police language."
Mamdami has received criticism from Democrats for refusing to come out with a stance on the phrase, including from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Jeffries told ABC News Sunday in June that the term was not "acceptable phrasing."
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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