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President Donald Trump says he was shocked by the key endorsement New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani landed this weekend.

Hours after Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York backed Mamdani , Trump took to social media early Monday to give the endorsement a big thumbs down. And the president suggested that federal funding for the nation's most populous city could be in jeopardy.

"Governor Kathy Hochul of New York has Endorsed the ‘"Liddle" Communist,' Zohran Mamdani, running for Mayor of New York. This is a rather shocking development, and a very bad one for New York City," the president wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from the New York

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