{"id":40111,"date":"2025-11-15T00:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40111\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:25:07","slug":"jon-voight-says-new-york-mayor-elect-mamdani-should-be-terminated-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40111\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Voight Says New York Mayor-Elect Mamdani Should Be &#8220;Terminated&#8221; By Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jon-voight\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jon-voight\" data-tag=\"jon-voight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Voight<\/a> doesn\u2019t just want to help <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/jon-voight-team-interview-trump-movie-tariffs-newsom-1236390466\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Make Hollywood Great Again<\/a>, the Enemy of the State star now wants the former Apprentice host to save an apparently in peril New York City. Specifically, Voight is asking POTUS to stop the newly-elected <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/zohran-mamdani\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zohran-mamdani\" data-tag=\"zohran-mamdani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> from taking over as Mayor \u2014 apparently by any means necessary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFor real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u00a0\u201cWe the people have put our trust in the President of the United States, Donald J Trump, he and only he, can stop this horror, as this mayor, Mamdani, will try to destroy New York\u2019s wealth and turn it into a socialist crap city,\u201d the Yonkers-born Voight exclaimed Friday in a video he posted railing against self-declared democratic socialist \u201cMuslim\u201d Mamdani. \u201cLet this be a warning to the people,\u201d the octogenarian says near the end of the 2-minute video before an awkward look away from the camera and fade to black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis city will turn into a forbidden place of darkness,\u201d the rambling Voight asserts earlier in the low-fi offering.  \u201cThe blood, sweat and tears that the city of New York was built on will turn into a virtual refugee shelter for the radical Muslim ideology,\u201d he added with a scripted dash of Winston Churchill it seems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u00a0Ominous and pretty clearly Islamophobic message received Jon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tElected on November 4 as Big Apple boss on a \u201cmandate for change,\u201d the Ugandan-born Mamdani easily defeated former Empire State governor and fellow Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/andrew-cuomo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_andrew-cuomo\" data-tag=\"andrew-cuomo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, who was running as a Trump-backed Independent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tInitially a long shot against the still powerful and establishment supported Cuomo dynasty, the little known 35-year-old state Assemblyman and son of Oscar nominated Mississippi Masala\u00a0director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mira-nair\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mira-nair\" data-tag=\"mira-nair\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mira Nair<\/a> ran an unconventional and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/zohran-mamdani-new-york-film-tv-production-1236607200\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media fuele<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/zohran-mamdani-new-york-film-tv-production-1236607200\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">d<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/zohran-mamdani-new-york-film-tv-production-1236607200\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> campaign<\/a> that delivered him a solid win in the June 24 Democratic primary, making him a certain shoe-in for the general election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite that democratic process and the larger than usual turnout among the residents of the \u00a0five boroughs, Jon Voight has appointed himself to sound the alarm. An alarm that some would say has been ringing for a while already in certain high income and MAGA circles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis mayor will destroy this city,\u201d the Trump-anointed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/donald-trump-jon-voight-mel-gibson-and-sylvester-stallone-hollywood-1236258722\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Special Ambassador to Hollywood<\/a> goes on to say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe are obligated to demand our rights for our private sanctuary, our businesses, our property that we all have worked so hard for, and this 35-year-old mayor has no right dictating the rules of socialism for a city built on our highest principles with brick and stone by hard working Americans,\u201d Voight continues. \u201cThis must be stopped, and his mayoralty should be terminated immediately. You the people of the greatest city, New York, are in danger of losing your city to this communist fool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMamdani has not responded to Voight\u2019s obvious dog whistling statements. What the Mayor-elect has been doing Friday is talking about one of his main campaign promises \u2013 addressing the high cost of living in NYC. A topic that may or may not be in Jon Voight\u2019s wheelhouse. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For too long, New Yorkers have expected only mediocrity from their leaders. It&#8217;s time we write a new story. <\/p>\n<p>On January 1st, we\u2019ll usher in a City Hall that tackles the cost-of-living crisis\u2014and we&#8217;ll remind our city what excellence in public service looks like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GSYM5esYU9\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GSYM5esYU9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZohranKMamdani\/status\/1989450761588412844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Deadline\u2019s Ted Johnson noted <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/zohran-mamdani-wins-new-york-mayor-1236607239\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Election Night <\/a>after the Bernie Sanders and AOC backed Mayor-elect spoke to supporters:  \u201cIn his speech, Mamdani pledged to deliver the \u201cmost ambitious\u201d agenda focus on affordability since Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, with a program of rent stabilization, free bus service and universal child care. \u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPrior to Mamdani\u2019s victory. it was predicted the rich would be leaving NYC in droves f her were elected. Never one to miss an opportunity to step into a situation getting a lot of media attention and likely following what <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fox-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fox-news\" data-tag=\"fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> was saying, Trump stoked some of those fears of what those policies could mean for the city and whether the feds would send in troops or cut off funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNow, with a month and a half before Mandami is sworn in, Voight has offered up his opinion. Now, while Oscar winner Voight starred in Midnight Cowboy, one of the most New York movies of all time, he seems to have spent most of the capitol out of his friendship with Trump on movie tariffs and a national <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tax-incentives\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tax-incentives\" data-tag=\"tax-incentives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tax incentives<\/a> plan for Tinseltown. While MAGA for a while, Voight today appears to be stepping into new territory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-release-1236617428\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">very active today on his Truth Social today <\/a>and trying to move the media conversation away from his long association with now deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Trump hasn\u2019t taken Voight\u2019s bait, yet. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Voight doesn\u2019t just want to help Donald Trump to Make Hollywood Great Again, the Enemy of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13700,80,153,17397,3870,2078,23340,9,24,55,54,56,23341,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-40111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-2025-elections","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-electionline","12":"tag-fox-news","13":"tag-jon-voight","14":"tag-mira-nair","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-city-news","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-tax-incentives","21":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111","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=40111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}