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Mamdani should be nice to me: Trump

  US President Donald Trump has called the victory speech of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a “very angry” one. He said he had a bad start and that if he doesn’t respect Washington, he has no chance of succeeding.

Asked about Mamdani’s victory speech during an interview with Fox News in Miami on Wednesday, Trump said, “Yeah, I thought it was a very angry speech, certainly angry with me and I think he should be very good to me. You know, I’m the one who has to approve a lot of things that come his way. So he had a bad start.”

In his impassioned speech, Mamdani challenged Trump and declared the collapse of a “political dynasty.”

Amid Trump’s crackdown on immigration, Mamdani said New York will gain power through immigrants and will be led by an immigrant after his historic victory.

“Ultimately, if there’s one way to teach a nation to defeat Donald Trump, it’s the city that gave birth to him, and if there’s one way to intimidate a tyrant, it’s to end the conditions that allowed him to amass power,” Mamdani said to thunderous applause.

“Donald Trump, because I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn up the volume,” Mamdani said during his speech, before making several comments.

When asked to respond to Mamdani’s scathing attack, Trump said it was “a very dangerous statement for him to make.”
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