Says America Is an “Arena of Supremacy” and Its Citizens are “Small, Weak and Unoriginal”
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered an address, railing against ICE and Capitalism, to mark America’s 250th birthday on Friday morning, hours before President Trump is set to address the nation from Mount Rushmore.
Sitting behind a desk used by George Washington in the Nation’s first Capitol building, Federal Hall, now housed in New York City Hall, the Ugandan immigrant lectured Americans on our history.
“Here at City Hall, as I sit behind George Washington’s desk, alongside new Americans who came to this country, I cannot see all of America, but like so many who came before, I can see New York City. The city I see today looks very different than the one that greeted George Washington,” he said as a group of foreign aliens surrounded him.
The message was clear: on America’s 250th anniversary, we have been occupied, our land stolen, our identity tainted by people who weren’t born here.
He went on to tell the story of how the American Revolution began and how it nearly ended at the Battle of Brooklyn when Continental forces retreated to Manhattan. Then, he jumped 60 years forward and began speaking about New York’s outlawing of slavery, tying both to the idea of an “opportunity to begin anew.”
