A legal immigrant just demolished Zohran Mamdani’s entire act—and the video is impossible to ignore.
On the campaign trail, the self-described Democratic socialist has been touting his “authentic” roots. He’s promised free everything, railed against the one percent, and slipped into a makeshift Ugandan accent whenever it suited his optics. Now a naturalized American is calling him out for exactly what he is: a phony.
“I came here at seven years old,” the immigrant declared on live radio. “My accent is 100 percent American—just like Mamdani’s. Then out of nowhere he busts out a Ugandan accent. Where did that come from? It’s fake theater.”
That moment went viral because it was impossible to watch without cringing. Mamdani is upper-class. He was raised in luxury. Yet here he is playing at poverty for votes—eating rice with his hands and pretending it’s solidarity with the working class.
“Eating rice with your hands is common among poor Filipinos,” the listener pointed out. “But a well-to-do Filipino wouldn’t dare do it. Upper-class Mamdani eating that way? That’s the phoniest thing I’ve ever seen.”
This isn’t a small slap at manners. It’s a window into his entire campaign. The same man promising “free buses, free this, free that” can’t even be honest about his own upbringing. He’s a career politician repackaging privilege as people’s power.
New Yorkers deserve more than costume change politics. When a candidate’s authenticity is manufactured, every one of his policy promises is suspect. How can you trust a politician who fakes an accent to score cheap applause?
Curtis Sliwa and independent Andrew Cuomo are the other options filling the ballot. But for voters demanding genuine leadership and real results, Mamdani’s performance art only confirms what many have suspected: he is all rhetoric, zero substance.
At the end of the day, a candidate who pretends to be someone he’s not doesn’t deserve your vote. New York needs leaders who speak truth, not actors who swap accents like campaign slogans.
