'Very bad!' Trump has meltdown as  Zohran Mamdani wins vital endorsement

President Donald Trump lashed out on social media Monday after Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, scored a key endorsement.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday that she would be endorsing Mamdani for mayor, an announcement that comes amid hesitancy from many establishment Democrats to publicly back the Democratic Socialist mayoral hopeful in his bid for office.

Trump did not take kindly to the news.

“Governor Kathy Hochul of New York has endorsed the ‘Liddle Communist,’ Zohran Mamdani, running for Mayor of New York,” Trump wrote Monday on his social media platform Truth Social.

“This is a rather shocking development, and a very bad one for New York City. How can such a thing happen? Washington will be watching this situation very closely. No reason to be sending good money after bad!”

Trump has already suggested the White House may seek to influence the New York City mayoral election to prevent Mamdani from claiming victory, including by reportedly trying to tempt incumbent mayor Eric Adams to drop out of the race by offering him a job in his administration — thereby strengthening the position of mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations.

Adams responded that he had no intention of dropping out.

Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary election earlier this year, achieved in part due to his progressive campaign platform, has sparked fear among both Wall Street executives and Republican lawmakers, including some who have called for his deportation.