Don Trump Jr. jokes Mamdani will be ‘great' because he will force people to wake up to ‘ridiculous experiment' of socialism
The first son warned that the champagne socialist's proposed tax hikes on the Big Apple's millionaires and major corporations would only spell 'serious trouble' for the city because it would spark a mass exodus of high earners who could pay for his freebie-filled agenda.
'Mamdani, if he wins, he's going to be great for the rest of the country in the future because New York City is going to go through some really hard times, and people are going to stop playing with this ridiculous experiment of communism and socialism that has not worked anywhere else in the world,' Trump Jr. told Fox News' 'Fox & Friends.'
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Donald Trump Jr. warned Zohran Mamdani's proposed tax hikes on millionaires would spell 'serious trouble' for New York City given it'll spark a mass exodus of high earners who'll pay for his freebie-filled agenda.
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President Trump's son laid into Mamdani's campaign promises of a 2% tax hike on millionaires and a 4.5% increase on corporations, saying it'll drive away those who fund the majority of the city's subsidy programs.
'The reality is no one wants to pay that much,' he said, adding the wealth would uproot to other states like Florida or Texas if Mamdani's tax-the-rich plan comes to fruition.
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'This is really sad for actual New Yorkers and middle-class New Yorkers… the wealthiest people, they can move very easily. They can work from wherever.
'They are the vast majority of the tax base that funds all of these subsidy programs in New York City. You lose 10 to 15,000 of those ultra high net worth individuals, this city is in serious trouble, and no amount of free stuff being promised is going to actually help it,' he continued.
Mamdani this week kicked off a weeklong rage tour during which he slammed Trump for enacting policies that he claims are 'dire threats' to New Yorkers.
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'It's a shame.'
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Meanwhile, his brother, Eric Trump, noted that New York City was the 'epitome of capitalism' across the world.
'The guy is coming out and actively saying that he wants to shut down capitalism,' he said.
'I mean, it's the antithesis of what New York City is. The guy is holy, holy scary. And I think it's a disastrous thing for the state, which has already had an exodus of people out of it,' Eric added of Mamdani's tax plan.
Their criticism came just as Mamdani kicked off a weeklong rage tour during which he slammed Trump for enacting policies that he claims are 'dire threats' to New Yorkers.
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Mamdani's Trump-hating expedition is expected to tick off all five boroughs by Friday as the lefty insisted, 'We know that there is no borough that will be free from Trump's cruelty.'
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