'It's tradition!' Steve Bannon whines after Rudy Giuliani snubbed from Mamdani swearing-in
MAGA influencer Steve Bannon complained after former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was not invited to the swearing-in of current Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
"Were you invited to go to the inaugural?" Bannon asked Giuliani on his Friday broadcast. "Were you invited to sit up there as a former mayor? I saw de Blasio. Were you invited?"
"Of course not," Giuliani quipped. "Do you think I would have gone, Steve? ... I was definitely not invited."
"Isn't it a custom and tradition that you invite the former mayors?" Bannon griped. "Now there's no American flag. There's a little American flag tucked into the corner off to the side on an angle."
The MAGA influencer went on to argue that Mamdani was not a legitimate mayor because he is Muslim.
"New York City has fallen," he lamented. "After 9/11, an individual was sworn in on a Quran, sworn in on a Quran."
"It's not a legitimate swearing in because he swore in on the Quran," Bannon continued. "And the United States is not an Islamic country. Your thoughts? Is Mamdani legitimately in as mayor of New York because he's sworn on a Quran? Yes or no, sir?"
"It's a very, very legitimate argument," Giuliani asserted. "There's a real question as to whether our founding fathers, when we put the word religion in our Constitution, included Islam. They all considered Islam to be a warrior cult."
"So yes, there's a good question that he didn't take an oath," he added. "Now, find me a court that will uphold it."