{"id":230695,"date":"2026-05-13T23:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:38:27","slug":"donald-trump-drops-major-warning-for-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230695\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Drops Major Warning for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his approach to the city\u2019s wealthiest residents. The president weighed in on a growing feud between the mayor and one of Wall Street\u2019s most powerful figures, cautioning that the consequences could prove irreversible for the city.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump warns NYC Mayor to not \u2018tax\u2019 rich people<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President Trump urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to \u201ccherish\u201d billionaires like Ken Griffin, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/12\/us-news\/trump-urges-mamdani-to-cherish-billionaires-as-ken-griffin-plots-miami-move\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:New York Post;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Post&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Post<\/a>. Trump made the comments on WABC radio after the Citadel CEO threatened to abandon a Park Avenue skyscraper project. Griffin warned he would shift more jobs to Miami as a \u201cdirect consequence\u201d of Mamdani\u2019s rhetoric targeting wealthy New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump stressed the long-term risks of losing major business figures from the city. \u201cWhen you lose people like that, it\u2019s sort of not recoverable,\u201d Trump told host Sid Rosenberg. He added that leaders must actively court top executives and \u201cconvince them not to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The dispute began after Mamdani filmed a social media video outside Griffin\u2019s $238 million penthouse at 220 Central Park South. The mayor used the video to promote a proposed \u201cpied-\u00e0-terre\u201d tax on luxury second homes worth over $5 million. Griffin called the stunt \u201ccreepy\u201d and \u201cweird\u201d and later described the video as \u201cfrightening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Griffin told CNBC at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills on May 5 that Citadel would expand in Florida instead. \u201cWe will add far more jobs in Miami over the next decade as an immediate and direct consequence of the mayor\u2019s poor decision here,\u201d Griffin said. He also warned the mayor\u2019s rhetoric risked inflaming political extremism and cited the 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Citadel founder suggested Mamdani\u2019s attacks could jeopardize a planned $4.5 billion Park Avenue tower developed alongside Vornado Realty Trust and Rudin Management. Vornado chairman Steve Roth also criticised the mayor for the video stunt. Meanwhile, Apollo Global Management reportedly began weighing a major expansion in Florida or Texas amid growing concerns over the city\u2019s business conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Originally reported by Vritti Johar on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandatory.com\/news\/1772210-donald-trump-warns-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-tax-the-rick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Mandatory.com;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mandatory.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Mandatory.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2026\/05\/13\/donald-trump-warns-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-tax-the-rick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Donald Trump Drops Major Warning for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Donald Trump Drops Major Warning for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Donald Trump Drops Major Warning for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Reality Tea;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Reality Tea&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his approach to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,18649,9,24,55,54,4330,56,4316,82],"class_list":["post-230695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-donald-trump","tag-ken-griffin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-post","tag-ny","tag-vornado-realty-trust","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}