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President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post as Mamdani hits back at Trump’s ‘threat – it is not the law’

On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay.

“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.”

Trump’s comments echo those broadcast on Sunday during his appearance on CBS’s 60 minutes, in which he said: “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there.”

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 3 points 57 minutes ago

Trump has a lot of property in New York.

Sure would be a shame if he finally saw some consequences and lost a few dozen of them.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

djt wouldn't be able to name the communist countries in the world to save his life. It is a very anti-American behavior to label half of Americans as enemies. The US totally includes an opposition party. Idiot still doesn't understand what a democracy is and how to stay in his lane.

[–] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Whenever these fucks try and paint Americans as terrorists and threaten to cut off anything they create monsters they can't control. Anyone he attacks becomes wildly popular and almost assures them victory. Especially if he has his thugs come rough them up.

Fuck you cancer. You take far too many good people while skipping this piece of shit.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

What if trump is actually a secret good person and is aware of his meirdas touch and is actually trying to make the world a better place by attacking the people trying to make it better, therefore assuring their victory.

I mean he obviously isn't, but it's a nice thought.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Idk man, I see a lot of red caps at a certain party's rallies

red = obvious communist symbolism

I think those caps even say "make america great again" which obviously sounds like a communist slogan

I'd say we arrest these filthy communists 😏

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 hours ago

So that would mean that New York could stop paying federal taxes, no? I'm sure it contributes more than it receives

I always find it hilarious how red states and their leaders are all about cutting off funds to the blue states that fund their miserable existence. "We will secede from the US!" Ok Boomer, good luck with funding yourself as all of you are so mismanaged that you would fail to feed your own population within the year.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I may be wrong, but isn't NYC more of a money generator than it's a receiver? If that's so, I don't see how NYC would suffer, but it would widen the divide between such areas and poor dotational ones, making their people possible maga recruits.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Most blue areas produce money, most red areas (excluding Texas I think) are leeches.

[–] Neps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

T*xas very much does too, despite how much they like to act big and bad and independent.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I man they do generate a lot more money than most red states. Being able to admit that doesn't detract anything from the overall point.

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but we're talking about net here. Most blue states are net producers, most red states are net leechers. Texas might not be as big of a leech as some others, but it's still a leech.

Texas would be but they reject some federal funds they'd be entitled to.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I don't know what T*xas is. Is that like Voldemort?

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

YeeHaw exports look especially bad right now.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

There is still a system in place where states contribute their federal taxes before that revenue is used for whatever we have budgeted. A state doesn't take "their share" first, and states depend on federal funding for a lot of projects and services.

That said, a state with large surpluses can probably write policies to use their state taxes to pay for federal programs that people want to keep, but that's a snarled-up and anti-american system, the taxes are supposed to be used for the people, not be used like a cudgel to enforce political partisanship. There would be a lot of courts who would challenge this, which still might go in Trump's favor because of his corruption of the judicial branch, but that's a LOT of work and expense for something that isn't going to actually get the administration anything but ire from the citizens of one of the ~~country's~~ world's largest, most prominent cities.

Largely, this is as usual, a massive pile of bullshit meant to fit into a right-wing news site's headline ticker, because people largely don't read stories, they just read headlines and don't question it. This kind of rhetoric has always been about making his most powerful asset, his ludicrously stupid and armed and fanatical base feel like he's still big strong daddy choking everyone.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

i think people are still expected to pay federal taxes. even if trump blocked funds.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 hours ago

Like King George did? How did that work out?

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I'm not sure how all the recent tax changes will effect this either.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 31 points 8 hours ago

lol NY doesn’t need “his” funds. Trump needs NY funds though.

[–] lilmookieesquire@lemmy.today 35 points 12 hours ago

I really can’t think of higher praise.

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