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(NewsNation) — President Trump has threatened to arrest New York City mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani should helium defy the administration, and told reporters they "will instrumentality a look" astatine deporting Elon Musk.
The president has criticized Mamdani connected respective occasions since his triumph successful the Democratic superior for the New York City mayorship implicit erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
While successful Florida connected Tuesday, Trump doubled down successful his critique of the Ugandan-born socialist, who became a U.S. national successful 2018.
If Mamdani defies ICE, Trump would person him arrested
Asked astir Mamdani's comments that helium would defy ICE, Trump replied, "We'll person to apprehension him."
"We don't request a communist successful this country. But if we person one, I'll beryllium watching implicit him precise cautiously connected behalf of the nation. We [would] nonstop him money, we [would] nonstop him each the things that helium needs to tally a government," Trump said.
On his campaign website, Mamdani has projected ending New York City's practice with the migration agency.
"He’ll guarantee our migrant New Yorkers are protected by strengthening our sanctuary metropolis apparatus: getting ICE retired of each City facilities and ending immoderate cooperation, expanding ineligible support, and protecting each idiosyncratic data."
Trump floated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that the national backing received by New York should beryllium the aforesaid arsenic Florida.
"A batch of radical are saying he's present illegally, you know, we're going to look into everything. And ideally, he's going to crook retired to beryllium overmuch little than a communist. But close now, he's a communist. That's not a socialist."
Trump connected deporting Elon Musk: 'I don't know'
Speaking to reporters astatine the White House connected Tuesday, the president was asked a question astir the imaginable deportation of Musk, a autochthonal of South Africa.
"I don't know," Trump replied.
"We'll person to instrumentality a look. We mightiness person to enactment DOGE connected Elon. You cognize what DOGE is? The monster that mightiness person to spell backmost and devour Elon. Wouldn’t that beryllium terrible? He gets a batch of subsidies."
Musk precocious finished his employment with the national authorities and has since entered into thing of a feud with the president implicit the administration's projected taxation cuts and spending package relating to the "big, beauteous bill."
It is simply a acold outcry from the beardown narration the brace shared during the 2024 statesmanlike run and astatine the onset of Trump's 2nd term, wherever Musk spearheaded the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Musk reiterated his suggestion for a caller governmental party connected Monday arsenic helium rebuked Trump's megabill.
