{"id":237339,"date":"2026-05-19T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237339\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:21:17","slug":"wall-street-bigwigs-dimon-solomon-fail-to-stand-up-to-mamdanis-madness-as-nyc-mayors-apology-tour-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237339\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street bigwigs Dimon, Solomon fail to stand up to Mamdani’s madness — as NYC mayor’s ‘apology tour’ flops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zohran Mamdani\u2019s \u201capology tour\u201d to quell the business community\u2019s outrage over his bizarre social media posting targeting fellow business leader Ken Griffin<\/a> didn\u2019t include much apologizing, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

In fact, Griffin\u2019s name and Mamdani\u2019s \u201ccreepy\u201d stunt \u2014 where he stood outside the Citadel chief\u2019s penthouse<\/a> to brag about taxing the rich \u2014 never came up in the confabs Monday with two of the biggest CEOs on Mamdani\u2019s agenda, Jamie Dimon, the chief of mega bank JP Morgan and David Solomon, the CEO of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t blame our Marxist mayor for ignoring the obvious \u2014 that his social media spot targeting Griffin<\/a> isn\u2019t just bad policy, since it will drive away the investors the city needs, it\u2019s also dangerous given the recent spate of violence directed at the CEO class by leftists.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on Monday. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

No, point the finger at Dimon and Solomon for being too timid to even gently remind Mamdani that his rhetoric is making the city increasingly uninhabitable for business<\/a> \u2014 not just theirs but anyone who employs working class people in the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know both are two of the city\u2019s biggest employers, and you can make the case they have a lot to lose.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharles Gasparino<\/p>\n

But they lost so much already, and their years of acquiescence to the loons in city and state government has just made them an increasingly bigger target for taxes, welfare-state schemes and the defund the police policies that put their middle-class employees at risk.<\/p>\n

And as they say in boxing, they had Mamdani on the ropes.<\/p>\n

The highly anticipated meetings were set up last month by Mamdani\u2019s staff after the business advocacy group, the Partnership for New York City, explained that his social media spot about Griffin wasn\u2019t sitting well with the people he needs to pay for all those welfare perks he wants to hand out.<\/p>\n

Mamdani angered many in the city\u2019s business community by filming a video celebrating his pied-\u00e0-terre tax proposal outside of hedge fund manager Ken Griffin\u2019s Manhattan apartment building. Mayor Mamdani\/X<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s leftist policies and Marxist proselytizing was forcing many business leaders not committed to moving elsewhere, to start thinking about relocation. In a panic, Mamdani\u2019s staff began dialing up business leaders to explain how he doesn\u2019t really hate them, even if thinks rich people, who pay most of the city\u2019s taxes, really don\u2019t pay their \u201cfair share.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a hard one to swallow \u2014 yet two of the most savvy businessmen I know did just that.<\/p>\n

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A JP Morgan source told me Dimon and Mamdani really hit it off. \u201cIt was a constructive friendly meeting on ways we can forge public and private partnerships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin\u2019s name \u201cnever came up\u201d during the \u201cfriendly and constructive\u201d sit-down.<\/p>\n

Dimon even gave Mamdani a book about economic development, as if he thinks he could overnight fill the gaps in the mayor\u2019s ideology.<\/p>\n

Ken Griffin did not come up during Mamdani\u2019s private meeting with Dimon and Solomon, sources told The Post. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Ditto for Solomon, who went to Gracie Mansion for his pow wow to kiss the proverbial ring.<\/p>\n

Ken Griffin\u2019s name didn\u2019t need to come up, people with knowledge of Solomon\u2019s conversation said, because \u201cDimon and Solomon made it clear that the mayor shouldn\u2019t do things to discourage business from staying in the city,\u201d a person with knowledge of the conversation said.<\/p>\n

Still, the two hit it off so much that DJ D-Sol (Solomon has a side hustle as a DJ<\/a> in the Hamptons party circuit) invited the smiling Marxist to Goldman Sachs\u2019 elegant West Side headquarters to prove that investment bankers don\u2019t have horns growing out of their skulls.<\/p>\n

Or maybe Solly wants to tap into Mamdani\u2019s playlist; our mayor was, after all, a rapper before jumping into left-wing politics.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ken Griffin, who has so far rebuffed the mayor after being threatened by him, minced few words in explaining the threat of Mamdani at the Milken Institute conference a couple of weeks ago. Griffin will double-down on an expansion not in New York, but Miami, where the government offers the \u201cAmerican Dream and a dream of earned success, not a dream of redistributive handouts that leave people dependent on government for their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well said. Too bad Dimon and Solomon didn\u2019t make the point. What are they afraid of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani\u2019s \u201capology tour\u201d to quell the business community\u2019s outrage over his bizarre social media posting targeting fellow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288,23718,3414,2375,1500,18649,9,56,63,65,64,299,3417,82],"class_list":["post-237339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-business","tag-david-solomon","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-jamie-dimon","tag-jpmorgan-chase","tag-ken-griffin","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-opinion","tag-wall-street","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237339","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=237339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}