‘Deport him to India’: MAGA meltdown after Zohran Mamdani’s historic NYC win; social media erupts

Zohran Mamdani ’s election as the next Mayor of New York City triggered an online meltdown among MAGA supporters, who flooded social media with accusations that the city had “fallen” to a left-wing takeover. The 34-year-old Democrat, a democratic socialist and state lawmaker from Queens, will become New York’s first Muslim mayor when he takes office in January. His victory over former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa prompted furious reactions claiming that New York was “toast,” “ruined,” and “done.” The backlash quickly turned ugly. Alongside anti-Muslim sentiment, a wave of anti-India rhetoric was directed at Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to Indian parents. Several users demanded that he be “deported back to India,” while others labelled him a “communist”