Trump says Mamdani must 'do the right thing' if elected mayor of New York City — or risk losing funding

President Donald Trump said that Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has "to bash the close thing" if helium is elected politician of New York City, oregon helium could spot national backing adust up.

"Let's accidental this, if helium does get in, I'm going to beryllium president and he's going to person to bash the close thing, oregon they're not getting immoderate money," Trump told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo during an interrogation that aired Sunday.

"He's got to bash the close thing," Trump said.

It's not the archetypal clip that Trump has threatened to withhold national backing for section politicians, peculiarly those successful bluish states, whose positions helium opposes.

He's antecedently threatened to portion national funding from California implicit Gov. Gavin Newsom's policies towards transgender athletes participating successful women's sports.

While Trump took peculiar purpose astatine Mamdani, the 33-year-old who defeated erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the archetypal circular of the city's Democratic mayoral superior past week, helium besides made a wider backing menace to each New York City mayoral candidates.

"I tin archer you this, whoever's politician of New York is going to person to behave themselves, oregon the national authorities is coming down precise pugnacious connected them financially," Trump told Bartiromo.

Trump has repeatedly called Mamdani — who is simply a Democratic socialist — a communist, arsenic helium did during the interrogation connected Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures.

Mamdani has rejected that label.

"I americium not and I person already had to commencement to get utilized to the information that the president volition speech astir however I look, however I sound, wherever I'm from, who I am," Mamdani told NBC News' Kristen Welker connected "Meet the Press."