President Trump Friday dismissed Republican Curtis Sliwa as a cat-loving light-weight who has little likelihood of successful the New York Metropolis mayor’s race in opposition to Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.
Riffing on Sliwa’s well-known penchant for felines, Trump mentioned the GOP standard-bearer doesn’t have the gravitas to beat Mamdani in deep-blue New York.
“I’m a Republican, but Curtis is not exactly primetime,” Trump mentioned on the Fox & Mates present. “He wants cats in Gracie Mansion… We don’t need to have thousands of cats.”
Zohran Mamdani. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Every day Information)
Trump repeated his suggestion that Sliwa and Mayor Adams ought to drop out of the competition to present ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who’s operating as an unbiased, a greater shot at beating Mamdani within the November common election.
“I think they need to have one candidate,” Trump mentioned. “And it would look to me like Cuomo, frankly, is leading the other two.”
Nonetheless, Trump expressed scant hope that anybody can defeat Mamdani, even when the three different main rivals unite behind a single candidate.
And he mentioned Mamdani’s sturdy assist quantities to a “rebellion” in opposition to the established order.
“Maybe one-on-one someone could beat him…but it would look like he’s going to win,” he mentioned. “And that’s a rebellion.”
Sliwa and his spouse share a 320-square-foot studio residence on the Higher East Aspect with 15 rescue cats.
The GOP candidate has mentioned he gained’t drop out of the race. He gained 27% of the vote in a shedding 2021 Republican marketing campaign in opposition to Adams, who was the Democratic nominee in that contest.
Cuomo, who was trounced by Mamdani within the Democratic main, says he’s the one rival with a sensible likelihood of beating the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist in a common election.
Adams, who’s polling in single digits, admits he’s assessing whether or not to remain within the race. He reportedly met with Trump aides lately to debate taking a job within the administration in alternate for dropping out, however the talks didn’t bear fruit.
Whilst Trump appeared near chucking up the sponge within the mayoral race, the president hinted that he would proceed to be a thorn in Mamdani’s facet if the youthful Queens assemblyman completes his exceptional and meteoric rise to Metropolis Corridor.
“I call him my little communist, my little communist mayor,” Trump mentioned. “But you know he’ll have to come to Washington for money, a lot of money.”
Initially Printed: September 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM EDT
