US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner (unfulfilled) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, Olivier Nduhungirehe (unless I illustrated) at the Oval Blanche Ovale in Washington DC, June 27, 2025.
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President Donald Trump said the Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani To “to do the right thing” if it is elected mayor of New York, or if he could see federal funding drying.
“Let’s say this, if he enters, I will be president and he will have to do the right thing, or they will not get money,” Trump told Fox News, Maria Bartiromo during an interview broadcast on Sunday.
“He has to do the right thing,” said Trump.
It is not the first time that Trump has threatened to retain federal funding for local politicians, in particular those of the Blue States, whose positions he opposes.
He is previously threatened to remove federal funding Of California on the governor Gavin Newsom’s Policies towards transgender athletes participating in female sports.
While Trump has the particular objective of Mamdani, the 33 -year -old man who defeated the former New York governor. Andrew Cuomo During the first round of the city’s primary mayor of the city last week, he also threatened with wider funding for all candidates for New York town hall.
“I can tell you this, anyone from New York of that of New York will have to behave, or the federal government is very hard financially,” Trump told Bartiromo.
Trump has repeatedly called Mamdani – who is a democratic socialist – a communist, as he did during the interview on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures.
Mamdani rejected this label.
“I am not so and I already had to start getting used to the fact that the president will speak of my appearance, the way I appear, where I come from, who I am,” Mamdani told Kristen Welker from NBC News on “Meet The Press”.
