{"id":344487,"date":"2026-09-11T23:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344487\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:54:21","slug":"lipreader-reveals-what-giuliani-said-to-zohran-mamdani-in-awkward-exchange-at-9-11-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344487\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipreader reveals what Giuliani said to Zohran Mamdani in awkward exchange at 9\/11 ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Mayor Mamdani had a tense \u2013 but civil \u2013 exchange at the 9\/11 memorial<\/a> service Friday, with an expert revealing the message \u201cAmerica\u2019s Mayor\u201d passed on to Hizzoner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI prayed for you,\u201d Giuliani, who is a devout Roman Catholic, told Mamdani as the two men shook hands, according to Jeremy Freeman, a UK-based expert lipreader. \u201cGood job. OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, passes former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani ahead of a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the National September 11 Memorial. Barry Williams\/Pool The Daily News via AP<\/p>\n

The greeting \u2014 which came at Ground Zero after Giuliani joined growing calls for Mamdani to skip the memorial services \u2014 was awkwardly fraught, body language expert and behavior analyst Traci Brown<\/a> told The Post.<\/p>\n

Follow live updates as America honors the 25th anniversary of 9\/11, in NYC and across the nation<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGiuliani\u2019s eyebrows [are] up in recognition and acknowledgment. But his frown grows the longer they shake hands. So he\u2019s not happy about the connection,\u201d Brown said after viewing footage of the interaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cMamdani is leaning in and wants to connect. After he\u2019s not feeling so good about it. And works to counteract that feeling by making himself confident. That\u2019s what the hand on his hip is,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The pleasantries came after Giuliani, 82, claimed Sunday that Mamdani \u201cdoesn\u2019t agree that September 11 was an Islamic terrorist attack on the United States of America\u201d before launching on an anti-Muslim conspiracy-laced rant.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani shakes hands with former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani helmed the city during the 9\/11 attack. CNN<\/p>\n

\u201cNo question,\u201d he said during an interview with Newsmax \u2014 saying that\u00a0 Mamdani attending 9\/11 memorials \u201coffends me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani on Tuesday took a subtle dig at his predecessor, who led New York City during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air,\u201d Mamdani said, without outright naming anyone, as City Hall released 170,000 long-hidden documents<\/a> on air quality risks after the attacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Mayor Mamdani had a tense \u2013 but civil \u2013 exchange at the 9\/11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5301,113412,34583,57,9,24,55,54,56,14738,58,82],"class_list":["post-344487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-9-11","tag-9-11-25th-anniversary","tag-9-11-memorial","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-rudy-giuliani","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344487","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=344487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}