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(New York, NY) – When it comes to popularity and “playing to the home crowd,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a natural. He flashes the big smile, tap dances a few times on TikTok, and the socialism-loving-masses swoon. Look no further than Mamdani’s self-serving video he produced on April 15, 2026 — tax day — in which he specifically made one of the city’s property owners a target for criticism.
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich. pic.twitter.com/Wky2LFXC9W
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) April 15, 2026
Standing outside of hedge fund manager Ken Griffin’s penthouse, Mamdani waxed poetic about the virtues of penalizing success, so as to fund government waste. He bragged and boasted about the upside of taxation, and how he’s delivering on promises made to the public. In response, Griffin sent an email to his employees suggesting the rude and targeted call out may change his company’s plans. As the CEO of Citadel LLC, Griffin indicated the firm may back out of a planned New York City office tower. That would of course mean fewer jobs added, less tax revenue available to the city, and less economic growth in general.
But that’s all a small price for Mamdani to pay when it comes to “dunking on the rich.” As the child of millionaires and the owner of a massive compound in Uganda, Mamdani is a privileged and wealthy person in his own right. Yet his inflated status, financial comfort, and increased standard of living is tolerated because he “speaks truth to power.” The amusing reality about the modern, Marxist left is that it’s fine to be “rich” — you just can’t be “really rich.” Where is the dividing line? That’s for them to decide.
Bullying is defined as harming or seeking to harm someone who is perceived as a weak or vulnerable target. It’s also a tidy term that can be applied to the left. Hollywood’s actors and the music industry’s artists are quick to tell their lowly fans how stupid, cruel, and uninformed they are — as opposed to their amazing and compassionate ways. That those comments are delivered from the golden pulpit and national stage means little to them in terms of the irony.
Plus, for Mamdani to spike the football about taxing people on April 15 is a bully move. Every American who makes about a certain amount is required (under the penalty of law) to fork over a bunch of cash every April 15 — so it’d be like reminding a Jewish person on Christmas they aren’t included. It’d be like telling Mets fans to enjoy the Yankees success they next time there’s a parade for the Bronx Bombers. Or, telling every worker to enjoy funding the lifestyles of illegal immigrants, indigent lazy people, and various grifters — every Labor Day.
Even TV personality and noted investor Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O’Leary, took Mamdani to task for his Griffin video stunt. He noted how it puts a high-profile person’s safety at risk when an elected official shoots a video outside their home. How would Mr. Mayor and his wife like it if someone shot a video outside their Queens apartment and reminded everyone: this is where that guy lives!
Mayor Mamdani gleefully reminded us all: we’re taxing the rich. He wants everyone to know how much he despises financial success. Well, provided it’s the financial success of someone who’s “really, really, rich.” Just slightly rich is ok — those people vote Democrat.
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