Zohran Mamdani is now officially the mayor of New York City.
It took all of 24 hours for the first “scandal” to pop up for his administration.
Mamdani immediately reversed all executive orders that former Mayor Eric Adams made after his corruption indictment, and now he is also taking heat for the removal of posts urging a battle against antisemitism; messages that were swiftly scrubbed from the official mayoral X account.
Former Mayor Eric Adams was facing serious legal problems until Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office.
Adams was sidling up to Trump after he was indicted on bribery-related charges, using the president's line about the government being weaponized against him, and Trump subsequently had the Justice Department drop all the charges. Adams ended up getting away scot-free.
Mamdani just decided that any order issued after that indictment should be voided, and he did so with one quick swipe of the pen.
In announcing the order to undo all of Adams’ orders, effectively erasing his legacy as mayor, Mamdani stated, “We speak about this day as a new era. And in order to fulfill that hope, we have to reckon with why so many New Yorkers have turned away from politics over the last few months, the last few years, the last few decades.”
Mamdani said all the right things during the election season about antisemitism, but I warned everyone to watch his actions more than his words.
True to my expectations, after taking office, it was reported that the official X account of the New York City mayor had scrubbed all posts related to combating antisemitism.
After this was reported, the National Jewish Advocacy Center responded, “It is difficult to overstate how disturbing it is that one of your very first acts as Mayor of New York City, on your very first day in office, was to delete official @NYCMayor tweets addressing the protection of Jewish New Yorkers.”
The note continued, “At a moment of unprecedented antisemitic intimidation, violence, and exclusion in the City the decision to erase official statements affirming the safety and protection of Jews is not merely tone-deaf, it is shameful. It sends a message, whether intended or not, that Jewish New Yorkers are uniquely underserving of continuity, clarity, or reassurance from their own government.”
This action garnered attention well beyond the city limits, as Israel also took notice of the account's scrubbing and responded that Mamdani was pouring “antisemitic gasoline on an open fire.”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry posted, “On his very first day as New York City Mayor Mamdani shows his true face: He scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel.”
A local Republican councilwoman, Inna Vernikov, also ripped Mamdani, setting up a nice little feud in City Hall to start the mayor's tenure.
As I have stated before, New Yorkers fell for the schtick and are getting exactly what they voted for in Mamdani. I have never worked so hard to expose someone and see it fall on completely deaf ears like this. All I know is that I have never been happier to be living in Texas than I am today, with no fear of that nonsense seeping into my state or city.
