Mamdani spews word salad to avoid question on aide who disparaged white women

Mayor Zohran Mamdani unloaded some verbal acrobatics Tuesday to avoid criticizing two close aides who disparaged liberal white women and called home ownership a tool of white supremacy on social media.

Mamdani’s latest word salad was broadcast live on ABC’s “The View” as he dodged answering a direct question from co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin about the unsettling posts from his chief equity officer and tenant advocate.

Griffin asked the socialist mayor about now-deleted comments from Chief Equity Officer Afua Atta-Mensah — whose radical statements included “there’s NO moderate way to black liberation” — and Office to Protect Tenants Cea Weaver who called to “seize private property.”

“Your new chief equity officer made several now deleted comments, disparaging liberal white women,” said Griffin, a former Trump administration staffer. “Your tenant advocate said that home ownership was a weapon of white supremacy and called to elect more communists, among other posts.”

“What message do you think this conveys to New Yorkers, and how would you push back on this?” she asked.

But Mamdani answered about himself instead.

“If you want to know my views or my opinions, you’ll find them in my words,” Mamdani replied. “As the mayor of New York City, and I’m someone who’s looking to make a city that every New Yorker can afford.”

He went on to praise Weaver but without mentioning her by name or directly responding to the question he was asked.

“And I think, frankly, what New Yorkers are also looking for are the outcomes, and that’s what I care about, the outcomes and the excellence we deliver,” he said.

He claimed in 20 days since Weaver’s hiring the city has “taken on a landlord that had more violations than I can count, and we have secured $30 million in guaranteed repairs for thousands of those violations.”

Mamdani also attempted to reassure homeowners in his rambling response adding that his goal for a city that everyone can afford “includes tenants, homeowners, and those who aspire to be homeowners.” 

During his appearance on the long-running daytime talk show, Mamdani also said he was in favor of abolishing ICE.