Escape From Mamdani’s New York: Rambling Jon Voight Tells Trump That NYC Mayor-Elect’s Victory Should Be “Terminated”
Jon Voight doesn’t just want to help Donald Trump to Make Hollywood Great Again, the Enemy of the State star now wants the former Apprentice host to save an apparently in-peril New York City. Specifically, Voight is asking POTUS to stop the newly-elected Zohran Mamdani from taking over as mayor — apparently by any means necessary.
“We the people have put our trust in the President of the United States, Donald J Trump, he and only he, can stop this horror, as this mayor, Mamdani, will try to destroy New York’s wealth and turn it into a socialist crap city,” the Yonkers-born and now Beverly Hills-based Voight said late Thursday in a video he posted railing against self-declared democratic socialist “Muslim” Mamdani. “Let this be a warning to the people,” the octogenarian says near the end of the two-minute video before an awkward look away from the camera and fade to black.
“This city will turn into a forbidden place of darkness,” the rambling Voight said earlier in the low-fi offering. “The blood, sweat and tears that the city of New York was built on will turn into a virtual refugee shelter for the radical Muslim ideology,” he added with a scripted dash of Winston Churchill it seems.
Ominous and pretty clearly Islamophobic message received, Jon.
Elected on November 4 as Big Apple boss on a “mandate for change,” the Ugandan-born Mamdani easily defeated former Empire State governor and fellow Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who was running as a Trump-backed Independent.
Initially a long shot against the still powerful and establishment-supported Cuomo dynasty, the little known 35-year-old state Assemblyman and son of Oscar-nominated Mississippi Masala director Mira Nair ran an unconventional and social media-fueled campaign that delivered him a solid win in the June 24 Democratic primary, making him a certain shoe-in for the general election.
Despite that democratic process and the larger-than-usual turnout among residents of the five boroughs, Gersh-repped Voight has appointed himself to sound the alarm that some would say has been ringing for a while already in certain high income and MAGA circles.
“This mayor will destroy this city,” the Trump-anointed Special Ambassador to Hollywood goes on to say.
“We are obligated to demand our rights for our private sanctuary, our businesses, our property that we all have worked so hard for, and this 35-year-old mayor-to-be has no right dictating the rules of socialism for a city built on our highest principles with brick and stone by hard-working Americans,” Voight continues. “This must be stopped, and his mayoralty should be terminated immediately. You the people of the greatest city, New York, are in danger of losing your city to this communist fool.”
Mamdani has not responded to Voight’s obvious dog-whistling statements. What the Mayor-elect has been doing Friday is talking about one of his main campaign promises: addressing the high cost of living in NYC. A topic that may or may not be in Jon Voight’s wheelhouse.
For too long, New Yorkers have expected only mediocrity from their leaders. It’s time we write a new story.
On January 1st, we’ll usher in a City Hall that tackles the cost-of-living crisis—and we’ll remind our city what excellence in public service looks like. pic.twitter.com/GSYM5esYU9
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) November 14, 2025
As Deadline’s Ted Johnson noted on Election Night after the Bernie Sanders- and AOC-backed Mayor-elect spoke to supporters: “In his speech, Mamdani pledged to deliver the ‘most ambitious’ agenda focused on affordability since Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, with a program of rent stabilization, free bus service and universal child care.”
Prior to Mamdani’s victory, it was predicted the rich would be leaving NYC in droves if he were elected. Never one to miss an opportunity to step into a situation getting a lot of media attention and likely following what Fox News was saying, Trump stoked some of those fears of what those policies could mean for the city and whether the feds would send in troops or cut off funding.
Now, with a month and a half before Mandami is sworn in, Voight has offered up his opinion. Now, while Oscar winner Voight starred in Midnight Cowboy, one of the most New York movies of all time, he seems to have spent most of the capital out of his friendship with Trump on movie tariffs and a national tax incentives plan for Tinseltown. While MAGA for a while, Voight appears to be stepping into new territory.
While active today on his Truth Social and trying to move the media conversation away from his long association with now deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Trump hasn’t taken Voight’s bait, yet.
