Donald Trump has made no secret of his feelings about New York’s mayoral race, inaccurately denouncing Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani as a “communist” and threatening to withhold federal funding to the city if he wins. But in an interview on Sunday’s 60 Minutes , the president finally gave his official half-hearted backing to another candidate in the race: independent Andrew Cuomo .

“I’m not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other, but if it’s gonna be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I’m gonna pick the bad Democrat all the time, to be honest with you,” Trump said .

Mamdani and his campaign gleefully responded to Trump’s announcement, sharing a graphic congratulating Cuomo:

Cuomo disappeared from weird confrontation over Trump’s quasi-endorsement during a radio interview

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