HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday condemned a New York City radio host’s reference to Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a “Radical Islam cockroach.”
Sid Rosenberg, a host of 77 WABC, asked President Donald Trump in a social media post earlier in the day to “put this little antisemite in his place!”
“Calling @NYCMayor a ‘Radical Islam cockroach’ is dangerous and dehumanizing,” Schumer wrote on X.
“It is a disgusting display of bigotry and Islamophobia that should receive universal condemnation. This type of rhetoric has no place in NYC or America.”
Rosenberg also called Mamdani a “Jihadist America hating mayor” who has “spit” in Trump’s face.
“His over the top criticism of the Maduro capture. ICE, Bibi and now this great operation in Iran is too much for most of us,” Rosenberg said. “Bottom line is he’s an America hating, Jew hating, Radical Islam cockroach running our once beautiful city.”
Mamdani told reporters that he has more important work than indulging a man who “trades in outrage,” although he cautioned against dismissing Rosenberg’s comments as “politics as usual.”
“To be called animals, insects, to be called a jihadist mayor, to be called a cockroach, this language is both painfully familiar to me as a Muslim New Yorker but also as someone who was born in East Africa,” the mayor said. “And it is difficult to hear, it is also – there is also a reminder that the silence that often greets this kind of bigotry, this kind of Islamophobia is what allows it to fester.”
Rosenberg has defended his comments in many other X posts.
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