{"id":317998,"date":"2025-11-05T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317998"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:40:15","slug":"turn-the-volume-up-mamdani-invokes-trump-in-fiery-speech-that-laid-out-plan-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317998","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Turn the volume up\u2019: Mamdani invokes Trump in fiery speech that laid out plan of action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Visser \u2013 The Guardian Nov 5, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City<\/a>, issued a direct call to Donald Trump in his victory speech on Tuesday night, saying he would enter City Hall with a firm plan to counter the politics of division and cronyism that helped elevate him to the White House.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, speaking to supporters in Brooklyn after a decisive victory over Andrew Cuomo, the former governor, said New York<\/a> had shown it would be the \u201clight\u201d in a \u201cmoment of political darkness\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump<\/a> has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall,\u201d Mamdani, who will be the city\u2019s first Muslim mayor, said. \u201cNo more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor-elect then issued a direct message to the president, saying if any city could show the nation how to defeat Trump, it was the \u201ccity that gave rise to him\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it\u2019s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you\u2019re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,\u201d Mamdani said, to raucous applause.<\/p>\n

He was leading Cuomo by more than 8 percentage points, with 91% of the vote counted, around midnight ET. The result capped a stunning surge for the Democratic socialist after he won the June primary<\/a>, and a dramatic fall from grace for Cuomo, who had waged a well-funded independent bid.<\/p>\n

Mamdani reiterated a slate of his key policies to supporters on Tuesday night and how they would counter the Trump agenda. They included a plan to hold landlords to account for how they treat tenants; ending a \u201cculture of corruption\u201d that has benefited the billionaire class; and expanding labor protections and standing alongside unions \u201cbecause we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cSo hear me President Trump when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results were in part a referendum on Trump, whose approval rating has never been lower. Newly elected New York Mayor Mamdani sounds the counterpoint to Trump as he calls out to \u201csingle moms\u2026 the trans community \u2026 and immigrants\u201d. So we suspect that he will prove just as divisive <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":317999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318011,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317998\/revisions\/318011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/317999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}