'You'll never see me again!' Irate GOP candidate quits radio show during 'fiery' meltdown

Curtis Sliwa, the activist and Republican nominee for New York City mayor known for donning a red beret, quit his radio talk show on Wednesday after getting heated amid calls from the owner for him to drop out.

Sliwa, who founded the nonprofit Guardian Angels crime prevention organization, has hosted radio programs for more than three decades and became a prominent conservative in the state. He was the Republican nominee for mayor in 2021 and 2025.

But pressure has mounted for Sliwa, 71, to drop out from MAGA fans. And it came to a head when WABC station owner John Catsimatidis and other colleagues urged him to end his mayoral campaign to help embattled former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“Curtis would make the best mayor of all the candidates … but Curtis has to realize that he should love New York more than anything else,” Catsimatidis told Sid Rosenberg on WABC radio Monday, according to the New York Post.

“It certainly looks like Curtis should pull out right now," he added, claiming the city's can't "take a chance" that surprise Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani will win.

On Wednesday, hours ahead of a high-profile debate, Sliwa lashed out.

"He raged on the station’s airwaves 'you will never see me at the studios of WABC again' as he accused colleagues of betraying him and complained to host Sid Rosenberg that the station was giving preferable treatment to independent candidate, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo," the Post reported, calling it a "fiery on-air showdown."

"Let me just say Sid, I am directing my comments to everybody at WABC," Sliwa said. “They have said I’m selfish. Selfish? Are you out of your mind?”

"But that’s why you will never see me at the studios of WABC again, never, no matter how this election turns out," he raged.