New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat at a desk, one that had been used by George Washington, to deliver a speech for our country's 250th birthday.
Mamdani claimed we are told that America is exceptional because we are "richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else." That is, of course, not why we are told we are exceptional.
As my colleague Brandon Morse noted in his VIP piece on NYC's mayor, Mamdani then said we are exceptional because "nothing is fixed in place," and Brandon rightly ripped that apart.
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What Mamdani denies in that is the very core of our being: that we are exceptional because we stand on a bedrock of individual rights, a rule of law fixed in place on the Constitution that cannot be undone by the political winds, a great thought that we put into practice that positively helped to bring more freedom to the world.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis compared that to what Calvin Coolidge said on our 150th birthday.
Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) July 3, 2026
“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore… https://t.co/yTbh1DK6jm
Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:
“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."
Socialism and Communism undermine the very essence of those individual rights on which America is built - when property can be seized by the government and seized for the "common good," where your rights mean nothing when the state comes knocking.
Mamdani wasn't done with that one, twisted thought about exceptionalism. He painted America as an arena of oppression. Mamdani spoke against people who pitched division through our history - then proceeded to pitch division, attacking Elon Musk and demonizing the law enforcement agents who help hold up our rule of law with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani used America’s 250th anniversary to sharply criticize the country, accusing the U.S. of allowing children to go hungry while billionaires and “oligarchs” gain more power.
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 3, 2026
He said America’s wealth was built by working people with “calloused,… pic.twitter.com/p7Ayuza5je
"As we mark our 250th, we see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country 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.
We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors, before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. 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.”
Mamdani attacks the rule of law. The very act of enforcing it is somehow made evil, when indeed, it is the undermining of it, and the demonizing of those who help to protect us, that is evil.
Pushing class warfare on our 250th birthday is an affront to America. With every fiber of our being throughout our history, we have resisted that kind of communist mantra, and we fought against Communist nations that sought to spread that illness around the world.
Yet now we see it, at our gate, and on our doorstep. Now we need to stand against it, once again. Remember Saul Alinsky? "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." For the radicals, that target is Elon Musk, whom Mamdani is referencing there. "Hungers for more?" Few people care less about the personal trappings of wealth than Musk, who lives in a $50,000 prefab tiny home. He's done more to enrich others and help the world than Mamdani will ever do.
The irony of what Mamdani said is that he acts like he's acting on behalf of the working man, when he fits his own characterization of the power in the "soft hands of a precious few." What had he even achieved before becoming mayor? Not much. Like most of the champagne socialists we see coming to the fore now, who are permanent students and/or come from money, he was the son of wealthy parents.
The funny thing is, it isn't the working class embracing these socialist characters - it's their similar peers: wealthy and/or permanent student peers. The working class is just another thing they use, like BLM, Occupy, or ICE, to whip up the radicals and move them further left. The working class knows the problems that come from not locking up people or deporting illegal aliens; they support the rule of law on the whole, because they have to face those problems left unaddressed, which the wealthy socialists do not.
Mamdani sat at Washington's desk. But I don't think he even begins to grasp what America is all about.
