{"id":40960,"date":"2025-11-16T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40960\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:18:22","slug":"rambling-jon-voight-tells-trump-that-nyc-mayor-elects-victory-should-be-terminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40960\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambling Jon Voight Tells Trump That NYC Mayor-Elect\u2019s Victory Should Be \u201cTerminated\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Voight doesn\u2019t just want to help Donald Trump to 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 Zohran Mamdani from taking over as mayor \u2014 apparently by any means necessary.<\/p>\n

\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 and now Beverly Hills-based Voight said late Thursday 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 two-minute video before an awkward look away from the camera and fade to black.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis city will turn into a forbidden place of darkness,\u201d the rambling Voight said 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

Ominous and pretty clearly Islamophobic message received, Jon.<\/p>\n

Elected 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 Andrew Cuomo, who was running as a Trump-backed Independent.<\/p>\n

Initially 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 Mira Nair ran an unconventional and social media-fueled campaign<\/a> that delivered him a solid win<\/a> in the June 24 Democratic primary, making him a certain shoe-in for the general election.<\/p>\n

Despite that democratic process and the larger-than-usual turnout among residents of the five boroughs, Gersh-repped Voight has appointed himself to sound the alarm that some would say has been ringing for a while already in certain high income and MAGA circles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis mayor will destroy this city,\u201d the Trump-anointed\u00a0Special Ambassador to Hollywood<\/a> goes on to say.<\/p>\n

\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-to-be 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

Mamdani 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: addressing the high cost of living in NYC. A topic that may or may not be in Jon Voight\u2019s wheelhouse.<\/p>\n

As Deadline\u2019s Ted Johnson noted on Election Night <\/a>after the Bernie Sanders- and AOC-backed Mayor-elect spoke to supporters: \u201cIn his speech, Mamdani pledged to deliver the \u2018most ambitious\u2019 agenda focused on affordability since Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, with a program of rent stabilization, free bus service and universal child care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to Mamdani\u2019s victory, it was predicted the rich would be leaving NYC in droves if he were elected. Never one to miss an opportunity to step into a situation getting a lot of media attention and likely following what Fox News 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

Now, 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 capital out of his friendship with Trump on movie tariffs and a national tax incentives plan for Tinseltown. While MAGA for a while, Voight appears to be stepping into new territory.<\/p>\n

While active today on his Truth Social <\/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

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