“Mayor Zohran Mamdani will deliver a presidential-style speech Friday for America’s 250th birthday in what City Hall billed a ‘major address’ hours before President Trump delivers his own remarks,” the New York Post reports.

“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani left his rent-stabilized apartment in Queens to move to the mayor’s official residence this year. Now, his former landlord is raising the rent on that unit for the new tenant by more than 30%,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“And there is nothing in the city’s new rent freeze to stop it.”

“President Donald Trump on Sunday used his social media platform to denigrate Janeese Lewis George, the democratic socialist who recently won D.C.’s Democratic mayoral primary, describing her as a ‘Communist adherent’ whose likely election would threaten the nation’s capital,” the Washington Post reports.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) was interviewed on ABC News by Jon Karl:

KARL: Republicans are going to make you the poster child for the Democratic Party.

MAMDANI: Let them. We don’t have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last six months, what we’ve delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible. We’ve delivered free child care for two-year-olds for the first time in New York City history. We’ve delivered tens of millions of dollars back to tenants who were taken advantage of by bad landlords. We’ve delivered 165,000 potholes being paved. And we’ve done all of these things while also delivering the lowest recorded crime in our city’s history. That’s what it looks like to have democratic socialism.

President Trump joked that he could be “the greatest communist in history” as he blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly approved rent freeze and a trio of socialist triumphs in House primary elections, the New York Post reports.

Said Trump: “Communism is very easy to sell, it destroys everything, but it’s very easy.”

“When Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City last year, many on Wall Street kept quiet, waiting to see how the Democratic socialist would govern,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Now, after his protégés and allies swept primary elections this week, some of the city’s business elites are springing into action—at least, that’s what they plan on doing.”

“The Democratic Socialists of America picked up even more victories for local races, signaling that an anticapitalist and anti-Israel message was winning over voters in much of the city.”

“A city board voted Thursday to freeze rents for up to two years for about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, delivering on a key piece of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s agenda while rattling the real estate industry,” the Washington Post reports.

“The biggest city in the country is led by a democratic socialist, and another is in the running to lead the second biggest. Seattle has a socialist mayor. And in 2027, a democratic socialist will almost certainly be taking the reins of the nation’s capital,” the New York Times reports.

“With her convincing victory in the Democratic primary in Washington last week, Janeese Lewis George, 38, became the latest candidate to claim victory with the once-forbidden “S word” in her biography and an ambitious left-wing agenda, promising to harness the power of municipal government to tackle the costs and challenges of urban living.”

CBS News: Democratic socialism in the midst of a U.S. revival.

Wall Street Journal: “With the endorsements, Mamdani is risking backlash from Hispanic voters and dozens of elected officials whom Espaillat and Velázquez helped cultivate and mentor. But if the mayor’s candidates prevail, he wins a growing list of allies inside the New York delegation to Washington. Mamdani is also backing former city comptroller and ally Brad Lander, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman in the Tenth Congressional District race, in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, that has largely been dominated by Israel and its war in Gaza.”

“Victories in these races would let Mamdani flex his political strength with other federal and state New York lawmakers, said political analyst Michael Lange.”

President Trump threatened to “take back Washington and run it on a federal basis” if democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George wins the D.C. mayoral election, the Washington Examiner reports.

Washington Post: “Surveillance video from his shop shows one of the men prying open the heavy steel manhole cover, as a car that seems to be accompanying them sits nearby with its headlights pointed their direction. The trio soon slipped out of sight, into the bowels of the city.”

“That May 5 encounter marked the first in at least three recent incidents in which groups of people have been captured on camera climbing into — and out of — parts of the city’s sprawling sewer system.”

Wall Street Journal: “New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, wearing a Knicks jersey, a baseball cap and mask, slipped into Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in March to watch his favorite basketball team take on the Nets.”

“Unlike past mayors, he didn’t sit courtside at the game or end up on the Jumbotron. Instead he cheered on the Knicks with his friends in the nosebleeds, barely recognized by other attendees.”

“In recent weeks, the mayor has still sat in the cheap seats but has also assumed a more prominent role as cheerleader-in-chief, using his political perch to root for the team as it marched toward a spot in the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs.”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he’s forming a new Commission of Government Efficiency, or COGE, to improve the way City Hall spends public funds, Bloomberg reports.

Said Mamdani: “This commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster and more efficiently for working people. New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.”