Cea Weaver is fast becoming the face of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's communist administration – and it's turning out to be a red, splotchy, snotty face at that. Weaver, who is Mamdani's "tenant advocate," burst into tears when asked Wednesday about her mother's rather nice $1.6 million home in Nashville, Tennessee.
The question was posed to the 37-year-old housing justice warrior who said white homeownership was racist after it came to light that Weaver's mother, who just so happens to be white, resides in a comfy house in a wealthy and fast-gentrifying area of the country. The answer was tears.
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Here's what that looked like:
Zohran Mamdani’s woke, privileged tenant advocate Cea Weaver breaks down crying when asked about hypocritical gentrification comments https://t.co/EJ5FOswgmD pic.twitter.com/c5Jh5WEPAo
— New York Post (@nypost) January 7, 2026
And here's the backstory.
Soon after being sworn in on New Year's Day, Mamdani named Cea Weaver has the Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, with a stated goal of "hold[ing] landlords accountable and ensur[ing] New York City tenants are living in safe, clean homes." The new mayor was effusive in his praise for Weaver, a graduate of posh Bryn Mawr College, lauding her background "leading Housing Justice for All and the New York State Tenant Bloc, where she helped pass the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, landmark legislation that closed loopholes landlords used to raise rents and push apartments out of stabilization."
In short, she's a commie.
Weaver's background is pure elitist theater kid whose parents' wealth fostered communist ideals, leading to an adulthood steeped in anti-white racism couched as activism. And she certainly hasn't been shy about voicing those radical views. RedState's Becky Noble covered Weaver's radical and deeply un-American thoughts on the seizure of private property; private property and home ownership, says Weaver, is "a weapon of white supremacy." Here's Becky:
Cea Weaver is Mamdani's newly appointed Tenant Advocate. In several 2018 social media posts, she "advocated" to "seize private property," and had this to say about homeownership, which is only something all Americans strive to achieve: “Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.” Weaver had deleted the X account, but it has resurfaced thanks to those who know how to find them. In 2017, she urged New Yorkers to "Elect more communists."
Our Sister Toldjah had the scoop on some of Cea Weaver's history of making other troubling comments.
In another resurfaced video, she suggested that "transitioning to treating [property] as a collective good [instead of an "individualized good"] towards a model of shared equity, will require that we think about it differently."
And in December 2017, she called to "elect more communists," which happened in NYC eight years later with the election of Mamdani.
Well, Weaver's past comments and the stark reality of her lived hypocrisy caught up with her when a reporter accosted her outside her home in what looks to be an upscale neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The 37-year-old began running down the street after seeing a Daily Mail reporter outside her home, then said 'No' through tears when asked if she wanted to comment on her professor mother Celia Appleton's ownership of the $1.4 million property in fast-gentrifying Nashville.
No word yet on whether or not Weaver owns the property outside of which she shed the tears, but it's abundantly clear with each passing day that the Mamdani administration is in way over its head. Theater kids are fine when they're singing about surries with the fringe on top, but, as Cea Weaver makes crystal clear here, should be nowhere near big budgets and levers of power.
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