Zohran Mamdani is not a fan of this great Republic. And his lecture today is a prime example. He’s deeply disappointed in us. We are just not living up to his socialist ideals.

First, he staged the room with the George Washington desk turned around and used brand new citizens as props for his lecture. 

“We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions,” he intoned. “We see the wealthiest nation in the history of the world — one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections.”

Mamdani then took aim at his texting buddy President Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown and fellow billionaires.

“We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans,” he said. “We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands — those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone — and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held in the soft hands of a precious few.”

Such uplifting rhetoric isn’t it? America, according to Mamdani, isn’t great anymore because the wealthy aren’t helping out the poor like they should, which is socialist speak for siphoning money from the wealthy because they ‘don’t deserve it.’ We fought a war to get out from under the yoke of King George and to ensure our government SERVES us, instead of taking from us. Mamdani wants to take instead of serve.

Keep in mind, this is a guy whose new budget is going to bankrupt the city. This is a guy who is slamming rent controls in place and demanding that the city set their indoor temps to 78 degrees so everyone, except him at Gracie Mansion and the offices of City Hall can enjoy the warmth of collectivism.

We’re quickly approaching the “you will own nothing and like it” phase.

That includes your thermostat.

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) July 3, 2026

There was definitely a condescending ‘I’m better than you’ tone to his speech.

Somebody should count how many times Mamdani referred to his fellow American citizens as “them,” in his unifying America 250 speech. https://t.co/Ha7y91I48J

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) July 3, 2026

But you see, New York City has always been welcoming...to the workers.

“That legacy of every generation of Americans insisting that the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness extends to them, too, is no relic of the past. It carried millions of Black Americans north during the Great Migration. It drew hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to New York City after the Second World War. It invited countless others from the West Indies and South Asia and West Africa and across the world. And it is what brought my family to this city when I was seven years old,” he continued.

Keep in mind, his family is VERY wealthy. But he only wants to take from “some” of the undeserving wealthy, such as President Trump and Elon Musk. The Soros family is exempt.

Furthermore, he knows darned well, we are against ILLEGAL immigration. Mamdani came here through the LEGAL immigration process. He wants us to ignore that part.

“There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it. American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free. It is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West. Is why children in faraway lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here. And yet, the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth, that they were anything but exceptional,” Mamdani said. “For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best.”

“It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshiping the wrong gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from slums and shuttles, who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had,” he continued. “We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else. The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here nothing is fixed into place.”

I beg to differ. This Republic IS Exceptional. Why? Because of two documents. Our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Those two documents are the very backbone and foundation of our exceptionalism. Those two documents are the lodestone North Star of freedom and exceptionalism and are very FIXED INTO PLACE. It is called Ordered Liberty.

But Mamdani doesn’t like that kind of freedom. He doesn’t believe America is worth celebrating. We don’t spend enough time reviewing our failures and rending our garments on behalf of those failures.

Again, this speech wasn’t about celebrating America and the role New York City played in the forming of this Republic. Nope, he chose to lecture us all about how bad the healthcare industry, corporate landlords, military, and the wealthy are.

I can't think of a better image to give this whole open immigration thing a rest for a while than a bunch of newly naturalized citizens scowling while a foreign communist lectures the country as he sits the wrong direction at George Washington's desk.

Quite the optics!

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 3, 2026

Oh yes, the optics are quite something with Mamdani’s diatribe.

Mamdani doesn’t believe America is exceptional. He made that very clear in his speech today.

Feature Photo Credit: Original artwork by Victory Girls Darleen Click