Italian Americans in NYC Outraged by Zohran Mamdani Tweet Featuring Photo of Him Flipping Off Christopher Columbus Statue
The hits just keep coming for New York City communist and Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
Just days ago, he outraged the Jewish community over an offensive video he made satirizing Hanukkah. Now he has enraged the Italian American community in New York with a tweet of himself flipping the bird to a Christopher Columbus statue with a caption that reads: Take it down.
Mamdani’s policy proposals would destroy the city, but his talent for offending certain voter groups may prove to be his ultimate downfall.
The New York Post reports:
Mamdani stokes Italian American outrage after resurfaced tweet shows socialist giving the finger to Christopher Columbus statue: ‘Take it down’
He’s no paesan.
Italian Americans were outraged at mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani Monday after a social media post resurfaced showing him flipping the bird at a statue of Christopher Columbus and calling for its removal.
The socialist Mamdani is seen in the tweet from June 2020 giving the middle finger to the back of the towering figure in Astoria, which is part of his state Assembly district.
“Take it down,” wrote Mamdani, who was running for state office at the time.
The tweet left a bad taste in the mouth of Italian American groups in the Big Apple this week, including the Columbus Heritage Coalition.
Angelo Vivolo, the group’s president, vowed not to support the lefty candidate come November…
“He is being disrespectful to the Italian American community” said Vivolo, who is the former head of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, which runs the city’s Columbus Day Parade. “If you offend one community, you offend all communities.
Amazingly, Mamdani’s tweet is still up:
Take it down. pic.twitter.com/7Bmis8hnnh
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) June 18, 2020
All Mamdani has to do now is say something to offend Irish Americans and his trifecta will be complete. Do leftists really believe this guy is going to unite New York City? He is already doing everything he can to tear it apart.
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