Speaking from George Washington’s desk, New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered an address for America’s 250th birthday in which he criticized ICE, capitalism, and the United States more broadly.
Surrounded by a group of recently naturalized American citizens, Mamdani framed the U.S. as a “nation of contradictions.”
‘The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here nothing is fixed into place.’
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“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,” he said in remarks released on July 3.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist, further critiqued American capitalism and overseas military action.
“We see a nation whose immense
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