New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani obliterated Donald Trump in a rousing victory speech, calling the president a “despot” who has betrayed America.
Mamdani, whom Trump labeled a “communist” this week before endorsing his controversial opponent Andrew Cuomo, will be the city’s first Muslim mayor.
The 34-year-old addressed supporters in Brooklyn on Tuesday night after winning 50.4 percent of the vote to independent Cuomo’s 41.6 percent and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa’s 7.1 percent.
The Democratic Socialist’s speech called out the “billionaire class”—which he said had convinced people making $30 an hour that their enemies are those making $20 an hour—before invoking Trump’s history with New York City.
“We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears

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