Top 10 Most Islamophobic & Unhinged Responses to Mamdani’s Win (You Won’t Believe #1)

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Zeteo contributor Francesca Fiorentini breaks down her top 10 favorite islamophobic and unhinged freakouts since Zohran Mamdani’s big win, featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene, Charlie Kirk, Laura Loomer, and of course, Donald Trump.

The freakouts are in response to State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani's stunning and resounding victory over  Andrew Cuomo in the New York Democratic mayoral primary race.

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Francesca Fiorentini (FF): Here are the 10 best crashouts from the Mamdani win:

NUMBER 10. Finance Bros, who are freaking out. Here's CNBC's Joe Kernan bludgeoning an analogy of what Mamdani would do to the wealthy to what somebody did in Batman:

“Gotham. Have you seen what Batman is up against in Gotham and what the the guy running for mayor is up against? That's what it reminds you of. They're taking Wall Streeters and making them walk out onto the ice in the East River and then they fall through. I mean, there is a class warfare that's going on…”
FF: That's a lot of words to just say you're afraid of paying your fair share in taxes.

NUMBER 9. Crappy centrist Democrats like Dean Phillips, who at one point wanted to be the Democratic presidential nominee. He tweeted:

“Democrats wishing to lose the ‘26 midterm should promote a 33-year-old socialist devoid of executive experience for mayor of America's largest city and impeach a president who ended a tyrannical regime's nuclear threat while achieving a ceasefire days later.”

FF: Okay, forget the weird Trump love in all of that. I just think it's incredible that Democrats are somehow able to make this win look like a loss. You might as well say Democrats wishing to lose should probably stop winning. The problem is you're winning too much.

NUMBER 8. Fox News and current mayor, who refuses to resign, and will be running in November, Eric Adams, who are threatening New Yorkers by reading out all of the things that Mamdani is for: “He's a snake oil salesman.”

FF: Total snake oil. And it's not even vegan. You know what is vegan? Wire transfers from Turkey.

NUMBER 7. New York Republican Elise Stefanik, who blamed Governor Kathy Hokll for Mamdani’s win, tweeting:
“Tick-tock, tick tock, Kathy Hokll. We know you were in full-blown panic mode as you frantically draft and send out the congratulatory tweet to the anti-semitic jihadist, Communist candidate you helped elect in your party's Democrat primary because of your silence, weakness, and ineptitude. You own this dangerous insanity and are incapable of defeating it.”

FF: Are Republicans now mad that Democrats didn't try to stop Mamdani harder? Did you not see Clyburn and Clinton endorse Cuomo? Didn't you catch Bloomberg's $8 million donation to his campaign? Don't worry, Elise. Democrats tried.

So, Stefanik kicked it off. And now, let's go to the openly racist tropes like:

NUMBER 6. Marjorie Taylor Green, who just tweeted this photo of the Statue of Liberty with a blanket over it”
FF: And now I think we're supposed to assume that's a burka, but it actually kind of looks like Kristi Noem is deporting Lady Liberty back to France. In which case, enjoy it, girl.

NUMBER 5. Charlie Kirk tweeting, “24 years ago, a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim socialist is on pace to run New York City.”

FF: I don't get it. And look, I wish that were the end of the 9/11 comparisons, but apparently electing a Muslim to office who wants to make buses free is the right’s new 9/11. And he wasn't the only one. Representative Nancy Mace and Donald Trump Jr. said something similar.

NUMBER 4. So to switch it up in number four, I give you David Frum, champion of the Iraq war, now championing escalation with Iran, who tweeted, “Well, at least we can retire that faded and false line, ‘anti-semitism has no place in New York City.’”

FF: It's the same Islamophobia from the right, but liberal coded. Mind you, Mamdani campaign with a progressive Jewish candidate, Brad Lander. Dave, stick to what you know: cheerleading for yet another illegal war in the Middle East.

NUMBER 3. Donald Trump himself. Now, remember, Trump couldn't win a local election in New York City if he tried, but he can opine on one:

“Zohran Mamdani, a 100% communist lunatic, has just won the Dem primary and is on his way to becoming mayor. We’ve had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous. He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart…”

FF: Okay, stop, stop. Have you seen him? Have you seen yourself? Have you seen him? Have you seen yourself?

NUMBER 2. Laura Loomer, who's back to her Islamophobic roots and went one step further to say that no, this isn't like 9/11, but to guarantee “there will be another 9/11 in NYC and Zohran Mamdani will be to blame.”

FF: That just makes no sense. Okay? Like even if he were a jihadist, which he's not, why would a jihadist destroy a city they could be mayor of? Just do some basic racist deduction.

NUMBER 1. And the number one crashout since Mamdani's victory is the Zionist group Betar who tweeted, “We urge all Jews to evacuate NYC.”

FF: To which Raphael Shimunov replied, “Why would we leave after door knockocking for him?”

FF: Look, there is a long road to November, and if it's laced with more of these freakouts and ends with a New York City mayor who will finally fight for working people, I'm so stoked.

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