New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently attended the funeral of a fallen soldier from the city but was not invited to speak, which reportedly made him very angry.
According to the story, Mamdani had prepared remarks and was fully expecting to be called to the podium but it never happened.
Apparently, the family of the soldier is a little more conservative than people realized and did not want the mayor’s politics to become part of the event. Who can blame them?
The New York Post reports:
Fuming Mamdani blocked from speaking at fallen NYC soldier’s funeral despite writing speech: ‘He was never called’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani was snubbed from eulogizing Army Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad at the fallen soldier’s Queens funeral Friday — and the embarrassing scene unfolded in real time as he fumed while waiting in vain to give his speech, sources revealed.
Mamdani, who was relegated to the fourth row in the Ozone Park church, appeared to be reviewing his planned remarks on an iPad while Gov. Kathy Hochul and other dignitaries, including Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, were called to speak, a source in attendance said.
“They kept calling names and then he was never called,” the source said.
“Then he looked over at his staff, frustrated and seemed angry that he didn’t speak. When he realized his name wasn’t being called, he looked at his staff angrily and then eventually put his tablet away.”…
The diss came as Mamdani — an avowed democratic socialist who’s harshly critical of Israel and the US war against Iran — remains a divisive political figure both within New York City and across the nation.
Another source involved with the funeral’s planning said Rampersad’s family is pro-President Trump and didn’t want Mamdani to speak.
Yet another insider confirmed that Mamdani’s outspoken lefty politics ultimately led him to lose his customary mayoral role as a speaker during a hometown soldier’s funeral.
Actual patriots despise Mamdani. https://t.co/IIjVCXfjUE
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 31, 2026
This is certainly not the kind of treatment he is used to, is it?
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