Trump Calls Jewish Voters for Mamdani ‘Stupid’ in Explosive Election Day Remark.
Former President Donald Trump ignited a firestorm on Election Day after calling Jewish New Yorkers who vote for leftist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “stupid,” in one of his most incendiary remarks of the campaign season.
“Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self-professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!” Trump wrote Tuesday morning on his Truth Social platform.
The post, published just hours before polls opened, has already stirred outrage among Jewish organizations and renewed debate over Trump’s history of provocative statements about Israel and the American Jewish community.
The attack comes amid a bitterly contested New York City mayoral race that pits three prominent candidates against each other:
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, former Governor Andrew Cuomo running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
With Mayor Eric Adams not seeking reelection, the race has become a national flashpoint over the direction of the Democratic Party and the city’s political identity.
Mamdani, 34, a state assemblyman and outspoken critic of Israeli policies, has faced intense criticism from Jewish leaders for his comments about Gaza and his statement that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in New York, citing International Criminal Court charges.
His supporters see him as a bold reformer challenging entrenched power structures; his detractors call him dangerously radical.
Cuomo, seeking a political comeback after his 2021 resignation, has branded himself as a centrist counterweight to Mamdani’s progressivism.
His campaign has attracted unlikely endorsements — including those of Trump and Elon Musk — who both describe Cuomo as the “only viable defense” against what they call Mamdani’s “anti-business extremism.”
Meanwhile, Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, remains a long-shot candidate but continues to campaign on a law-and-order platform, emphasizing crime reduction and neighborhood security.
Despite the political drama, recent polls show Mamdani leading Cuomo, with Sliwa trailing in third place — a result that could make the first Muslim mayor of New York City a democratic socialist.
Trump’s latest comments, however, risk inflaming tensions in a city already polarized by issues of religion, race, and political ideology.
Analysts say his endorsement of Cuomo — and his attack on Mamdani’s Jewish supporters — is part of a broader strategy to reposition himself as both a defender of Israel and a disruptor of progressive politics in America’s largest city.
Whether his words sway voters or backfire remains to be seen. But as one analyst noted Tuesday, “Only in New York could an election between a socialist, a centrist, and a street vigilante end up becoming a referendum on Donald Trump.”
