President Donald Trump responded to a question about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s remarks about his focus on getting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) out of the city.
During a tour of a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades, the president responded in part, “Well, then we’ll have to arrest him. We don’t need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I’m going to be watching over him very careful on behalf of the nation.”
He continued about Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, “We’re going to be watching that very carefully. A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally. Ideally, he’s going to be less than a communist. But right now that’s a communist, that’s not a socialist.”
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