US President Donald Trump blasted New York City's newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, calling his victory speech “very angry” and warning that communism “has never worked.”

“Yeah, I thought it was a very angry speech, certainly angry toward me, and I think he should be very nice to me,” Trump told Fox News. “You know, I'm the one who sort of has to approve a lot of things coming to him. So he's off to a bad start.”

Trump said he wants Mamdani to succeed for the sake of New York, but warned that the new mayor should show “respect” to Washington.

“Look, for a thousand years, communism has not worked,” Trump said. “It's just communism, or the concept of communism, has not worked. I tend to doubt it's going to work this time. … It's literally never worked.”

Speaking later at the America Business Forum in Miami, Trump tied Mamdani's win to what he called the Democrats' “extreme socialist agenda.”

“On November 5, 2024, the American people claimed our government. We restored our sovereignty. We lost a little bit of sovereignty last night in New York, but we'll take care of it,” he said.Mamdani defeated independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who was endorsed by Trump.

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