Derek Guy, the influential menswear social media writer, brutally knocked down an attempted dunk on New York mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani by actor Michael Rapaport.
The 55-year-old actor and podcast host has been bashing Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist, on social media as being not a genuine New Yorker, mocking the 34-year-old candidate on Instagram as a fraud for eating a burrito with a fork and knife on the subway and grousing that he took his wife out for a sushi dinner.
"How’s a so-called 'working class' mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC?" Rapaport posted on X. "This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem. Who’s paying for that toro, 'Zoron the Moron'? You ain’t working class — you’re fraud class."
Guy, who's widely followed across social media and has written fashion analysis for the Washington Post and Esquire, responded with one of his trademark deeply researched critiques targeting the "Cop Land" actor's character and motives.
"I don't get it," Guy posted on X. "It's cheaper than Malibu Nobu, where you ate last year without your wife."
The "Die, Workwear!" blogger posted a video clip Rapaport dining at the beachfront sushi restaurant in California with a male colleague and complaining that he was spending too much on dinner without his wife, along with screenshots of both restaurants' menus showing that Nobu was indeed generally pricier than Omen.
"I'm not a New Yorker, so I haven't paid close attention to the mayoral race. The only thing I've gotten is that Mamdani is trying to lower housing prices and [Andrew] Cuomo sexually harassed (sic) women," Guy responded to a critic who said the two situations were not comparable since Rapaport wasn't running for office. "Personally don't care who eats sushi. Seems like if you want to beat Zohran, you should come up with a plan on how to lower the cost of living, not talk about who goes out for dinner."
On Bluesky, Guy made a similar post showing screenshots of where Rapaport and his companion had sat in relation to the oceanfront, and his followers celebrated another "surgical" strike on an opponent.
"The world’s greatest assassin strikes again," said Bluesky user High Priestess, Low Patience.
"WITHOUT YOUR WIFE," snorted Bluesky user Jessica Ellis.
"I screamed," replied Bluesky user Claire Willett.
