Trump Vindicated After Media ‘Fact Checkers’ Are Proven Completely Wrong

In late June, President Donald Trump referred to New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a “100% communist lunatic.” The comment sparked immediate backlash and was swiftly labeled “false” by multiple media fact-checkers, including outlets like PolitiFact and Al Jazeera, which maintained that Mamdani is a “democratic socialist” — not a communist.

However, recent scrutiny of Mamdani’s public affiliations, statements, and policy proposals has reignited debate over whether Trump’s characterization was actually off base, or if fact-checkers themselves may have prematurely dismissed a broader ideological critique.

President Trump didn’t hold back when discussing Mamdani during an appearance on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “He’s a communist… a pure communist,” Trump said, taking aim at his political affiliations.

Trump went on to issue a warning if Mamdani were to win: “Let’s say this, if he does get in, I’m going to be president, and he’s going to have to do the right thing. They’re not getting any money. He’s got to do the right thing.”

Zohran Mamdani is a sitting member of the New York State Assembly and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an organization whose political platform includes policies like universal public housing, socialized medicine, and the eventual abolition of capitalism. The DSA does not call itself a communist organization, but its historical roots include Marxist and Trotskyist currents.

According to the DSA platform, the organization supports “democratic control over the economy,” “worker ownership,” and the elimination of what it calls “profit-driven exploitation.” Mamdani has publicly aligned with these principles, advocating for state-run services and expanded government intervention in key sectors like housing and transit.

Mamdani has sponsored or endorsed legislation in New York that seeks to:

• Ban evictions and cancel rent during emergencies
• Create publicly owned grocery stores in underserved neighborhoods
• Expand public transit through fare-free service
• Abolish the 421-a tax break, which subsidizes private real estate development

In public comments and social media posts, Mamdani has referred to landlords as “exploitative,” called for an end to private profit in housing, and described capitalism as “structurally violent.”

This is not terrible AI, it’s a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades.

“The end goal of seizing the means of production.”

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— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 30, 2025

Mamdani’s openness to models used by socialist or communist governments has led critics — including Trump — to argue that his ideology veers closer to communism than fact-checkers suggest.

PolitiFact and others labeled Trump’s “communist” claim as false, primarily on the basis that Mamdani does not personally identify as a communist and has not called for the abolition of all private ownership or democratic governance. Their analysis focuses on terminology rather than ideological overlap.

The heart of the dispute centers not on whether Mamdani belongs to an officially communist party — but whether his policies, rhetoric, and affiliations reflect an ideological lineage that overlaps with Marxist principles.