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Zo say can you see\u2026<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani decried capitalism and the US\u2019 involvement in foreign wars during an address marking America\u2019s 250th anniversary Friday \u2014 while sitting at George Washington\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

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The 15-minute speech \u2014 which Mamdani gave while flanked by newly naturalized US citizens \u2014 balanced critiques with a celebration of a \u201cgrand experiment in self-governance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The democratic socialist mayor elevated the plight and contributions by downtrodden Americans \u2014 slaves, Continental Army soldiers, immigrants of all types \u2014 with the alleged smallness of the \u201cpowerful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions,\u201d he intoned. \u201cWe see the wealthiest nation in the history of the world \u2014 one where children go to sleep hungry while the world\u2019s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani then took aim at his texting buddy President Trump\u2019s hardline immigration crackdown and fellow billionaires.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans,\u201d he said. \u201cWe see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands \u2014 those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone \u2014 and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held in the soft hands of a precious few.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also used his soapbox to blast the health insurance industry, landlords and meddling in foreign conflicts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick, but that is not all I see when I look for America,\u201d he said. \u201cI see, too, the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on her way home to check on an ailing neighbor.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model,\u201d he continued. \u201cI see it, too, in the father who tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, wakes before dawn to go to work, and still believes this country can do better by them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts, when we sell our elections to the highest bidder,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has been a staunch opponent of the US providing military funding to Israel, painting it as an \u201caffordability\u201d issue.<\/p>\n

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New York City itself featured less in the speech than Mamdani\u2019s press team had initially promised. He invoked the city\u2019s role during the Revolutionary War and beyond, when it became a haven for freed slaves such as James Weeks and waves of immigrants \u2014 including himself as a young boy coming from Uganda \u2014 greeted by the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family did not arrive by boat, although we saw the Statue of Liberty from the window of the plane,\u201d he said. \u201cEven from the air, we could make out the promise of America\u2014the promise of the beautiful, patriotic work of rendering America, year after year, a little more faithful to its founding ideals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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