President Trump will knock Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani on his “tuckus” if he becomes the Big Apple’s next mayor, the socialist’s rival Andrew Cuomo contended during Wednesday night’s debate.
Cuomo, when asked about how he plans to work with Trump, said the way to deal with the “hyper-aggressive” president is to confront him.
The former governor then cast Mamdani as simply not up to the task.
“He thinks he’s a kid and he’s going to knock him on his tuckus,” Cuomo said.
“It is a balance, but you’re going to have to be adversarial when you need to. But you want to cooperate to get good things done in this city, and you need federal help.”
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Mamdani shot back, skewering Cuomo as “Trump’s puppet.”
“We heard from Donald Trump’s puppet himself, Andrew Cuomo,” Mamdani fumed.
“You can turn on TV any day of the week, and you will hear Donald Trump share that his pick for mayor is Andrew Cuomo, and he wants Andrew Cuomo to be the mayor, not because it will be good for New Yorkers, but because it will be good for him.”
The Queens assemblyman said he’s willing to work with Trump on affordability, but will fight the president on immigration crackdowns and other hot-button issues.
The anti-Trump rhetoric didn’t come from Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee.
“My adversaries have decided to bump chests with President Trump to prove who’s more macho,” he said.
“You can’t beat Trump. He holds most of the cards. He has already cut federal funding for Medicaid, for the SNAP program and is threatening cut funds for NYCHA. So if you all of a sudden going to get adversarial, you’re going to lose. And who gets hurt? The people of New York City with Trump, it’s always the ‘art of the deal.’”
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