Trump's attacks because of where I come from: Zohran Mamdani hits back

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s Indian-origin mayoral candidate, has hit back at US President Donald Trump over his deportation threats. Mamdani accused Trump of stoking division and using personal attacks to divert attention from his administration’s failures toward working-class Americans.

The 33-year-old politician posted a video on his social media handle and vowed not to back down, declaring that he would continue his work and "fight back" against Republican efforts to silence dissent.

"Yesterday, Donald Trump said that I should be arrested. He said that I should be deported. He said that I should be denaturalised. And he said those things about me, someone who stands to be the first immigrant mayor of this city in generations, someone who would also be the first Muslim and the first South Asian mayor in this city's history," Mamdani said during a rally at the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council headquarters in New York.

"It is less so because of who I am, because of where I come from, because of how I look or how I speak, and more so because he wants to distract from what I fight for. I fight for working people," Mamdani added.

Since Mamdani’s electoral victory, Trump has launched multiple personal attacks against him, labeling him a “communist” and a “lunatic” while also making remarks about his appearance.

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