In a powerful video released on social media, conservative Hollywood star Jon Voight, a longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, called on the president to “terminate” New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win before Mamdani takes over and the Big Apple collapses into being a “socialist crap city.”
As background, Mamdani is a Muslim immigrant from Uganda who became a naturalized American citizen and then was elected in the 2025 NYC mayoral election. As he is a self-described Democratic socialist who backs a slew of radical policies that many conservatives and moderates fear will ruin NYC, President Trump has been bombarded with calls demanding that he somehow block Mamdani before it’s too late.
Voight did so in a video in which he warned that Mamdani’s radical policies will turn once-great New York City into a “forbidden place of darkness” and “a virtual refugee shelter for the radical Muslim ideology,” and thus called on the president to stop that from happening before it is too late.
Beginning the video, Mr. Voight gave something of a eulogy for New York City, saying, “The mayor that has taken over New York City is a Muslim that’s going to take down the city that never sleeps, the city of life’s dreams, this city that our ancestors brought forth in prosperity and greatness and liberty.”
Continuing, the actor warned of what consequences New York City faces if Mamdani is allowed to take over, saying, “This city will turn into a forbidden place of darkness, the blood, sweat and tears that the city of New York was built on. Will turn into a virtual refugee shelter for the radical Muslim ideology. This is now the most dangerous time for our citizens of New York. This mayor will destroy this city.”
Calling on President Trump to fix that, Voight said the mayor-elect shouldn’t be able to abridge the rights of Americans, saying, “We are obligated to demand our rights for our private sanctuary, our businesses, our property, that we all have worked so hard for. And this 35-year-old mayor has no right dictating the rules of socialism.”
He added, calling on the president to somehow “terminate” Mamdani’s mayoralty, “For a city built on our highest principles with brick and stone by hardworking Americans. This must be stopped and his mayoralty should be terminated immediately. You the people of the greatest city, New York, are in danger of losing your city to this communist fool.”
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Concluding, the actor noted that tens of millions of Americans put their hope in President Trump and elected him to protect their rights and future as Americans, and so the president can’t let the radical mayor destroy the city. He said, “We, the people, have put our trust in the president of the United State, Donald J. Trump. He and only he can stop this horror as this Mayor Mamdani will try to destroy New York’s wealth and turn it into a socialist crap city. Let this be a warning to the people.”
Watch him here:
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