Mamdani plans 'major address' on America's 250th anniversary, 'surrounded by recently naturalized citizens'
Source: The Guardian
The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, plans to deliver what his office calls a “major address” on Friday to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, “reflecting on New York City’s role in our national history and its position as the nation’s symbolic gateway.”
Mamdani is scheduled to speak at 10am local time, meaning that his remarks will come hours before Donald Trump marks the anniversary in a speech at Mount Rushmore.
The city’s immigrant mayor will deliver his remarks “surrounded by recently naturalized citizens,” from a desk used by George Washington in 1789, when he was inaugurated as the country’s first president in New York.
“This desk is older than the Resolute Desk and was used by Washington when it was located in Federal Hall, the first capitol building for the United States,” Mamdani’s aides point out, noting that the desk currently used in the Oval Office lacks the same connection to the country’s original, New York-based administration.
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Mamdani is taking a dump on Trump’s desk.
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