OUTKICK Almando Salguerdo 11/7/2025
Kraft criticizes Zohran Mamdani's rhetoric at Blue Square Alliance Against Hate gathering
Robert Kraft jokingly explained at a gathering of the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate on Thursday how the New York Jets are not one of his favorites because he owns the rival New England Patriots. But he wants the best for New York City, anyway, and the election of Zohran Mamdani is not something Kraft is happy about.
"It's sad to me that a man can get elected in the city of New York, the No. 1 city in America, with a lot of beliefs, and when I heard him come out and speak after he won, I thought he was going to be more of a unifier. I think he spoke out in a way that showed divisiveness," Kraft said in an exclusive interview with FOX News and Outkick.
"And that really hurt me."
Kraft Problem With Mamdani Speech
Mamdani's victory speech was something off some Marxist dictator's teleprompter, trumpeting a new day on which one class of people vanquished another.
And witness the first line of Mamdani's speech: "The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: "I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity."
Eugene Debs was an avowed Marxist who was the founding member and five-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America from 1900 to 1920.
"New York will remain a city of immigrants — a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant," Mamdani bellowed during his speech.
Left unsaid here? New York was built by immigrants such as Italians, Irish and lately, Hispanics, many of whom assimilated into the fabric of the city and eventually became woven into the culture. It wasn't a bunch of outsiders who took over and established their socialist empire.
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