Trump says Mamdani’s NYC mayoral acceptance speech was ‘angry toward me’ and ‘very dangerous’: Live updates

Fresh off his historic victory in New York City’s mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani announced a slate of seasoned officials to help lead his transition to City Hall Wednesday, offering an early glimpse at how he intends to turn his ambitious campaign promises into reality.

“In the coming months, I and my team will build a City Hall capable of delivering on the promises of this campaign,” Mamdani, a democratic socialist, said at his first news conference as mayor-elect.

“We will form an administration that is equal parts capable and compassionate, driven by integrity and willing to work just as hard as the millions of New Yorkers who call this city home.”

That transition team will include two former deputy mayors, Maria Torres-Springer and Melanie Hartzog; former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan; and Grace Bonilla, the head of United Way of New York City, a nonprofit focused on low-income residents. Political strategist Elana Leopold will serve as executive director of the team.

The president was in a reflective mood on Truth Social last night, posting a series of videos marking the one-year anniversary of his election win.

In one, he reassures his MAGA movement about the future, hinting at how seriously he takes Tuesday’s disastrous night at the polls for Republicans.

Another is a montage recounting his “mythical story,” from luxury real estate tycoon-ery to the White House via reality TV, in which he is described as nothing less than the “bodyguard of western civilization” in a grandiose voiceover.

In a rather random collection of remarks from Mar-a-Lago, he rallies his party, again calls for the abolition of the Senate filibuster and demands that the Nigerian government end the persecution of Christians, which it has said is not something that is happening.

Here’s a little more from the president’s comments about New York City’s mayor-elect at yesterday’s business conference in Miami, which was held on the one-year anniversary of his own election win over Kamala Harris.

Oddly, Trump claimed the U.S. had lost “sovereignty” because of the young progressive’s victory in the Big Apple and told his audience in Florida that their city “will soon be the refuge for those fleeing communism in New York.”

He continued: “The decision facing all Americans could not be more clear: We have a choice between communism and common sense,” adding that Democrats offered only an “economic nightmare” whereas his policies would bring about an “economic miracle.” The jury is very much out on that one just now.

Reflecting on his first 10 months in office, the president claimed: “We rescued our economy, regained our liberty, and together we saved our country on that magnificent night 365 days ago.”

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently weighing up the legality of Trump’s aggressive tariff program and much will hinge on its verdict.

Back on Mamdani, the president warned he could be a harbinger of “worse” things to come: “If you want to see what congressional Democrats wish to do to America, just look at the result of yesterday’s election in New York where their party installed a communist as the mayor of the largest city in the nation.”

Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, has refuted President Donald Trump’s claim that grocery prices are “way down.”

“Grocery prices are not way down. The only way to reverse inflation is to quit spending more money than we bring in, which means we must cut spending. The big beautiful bill increased spending,” Massie wrote on X Wednesday night.

A recent International Monetary Fund forecast predicted that Trump’s massive spending bill would help push U.S. debt levels beyond those of Greece or Italy.

John Bowden has the story:

American Airlines has announced a reduction in flight schedules starting Friday, citing the ongoing government shutdown.

The Federal Aviation Administration will be reducing air traffic by 10 percent across 40 major airports in the coming days.

Mike Bedigan has the story:

It was at a small family dinner when the then 28-year old Zohran Mamdani told Ruchira Gupta that he wanted to go into electoral politics.

Six years on, he has been elected mayor of New York City. His was an old-fashioned victory, she writes, rooted in honesty and principle – just like the man she knows him to be.

President Donald Trump responded to an unhappy MAGA supporter who begged him to “please do something” about rising living costs by making a rambling claim that they were, in fact, “way down.”

He was then read a statement by Baier from North Carolina retiree Regina Foley, who had voted for him three times previously, but was “not happy” with the current economic climate.

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