{"id":24437,"date":"2025-11-06T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=24437"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:03:00","slug":"zohran-mamdani-faces-backlash-as-old-columbus-tweet-goes-viral-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=24437","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani faces backlash as old Columbus tweet goes viral again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani, 34, will become New York City\u2019s next mayor, marking a historic victory.<\/p>\n<p>Many are celebrating, while others worry about the city\u2019s future, calling him a communist.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, an old tweet of his has resurfaced, sparking controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Flipping the middle finger at Columbus<\/p>\n<p>Just a year ago, Zohran Mamdani was a relatively unknown figure \u2013 today, everyone is eager to learn about the 34-year-old Queens-based democratic socialist and state assembly member.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, an old tweet is making a comeback in the spotlight, one that many people have had, and still have, strong opinions about.<\/p>\n<p>You could say it all started with a June 2020 tweet, in which the socialist Mamdani was pictured flipping the middle finger at a towering statue in Astoria, a neighborhood within his state Assembly district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake it down,\u201d said Mamdani, who was running for state assembly at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani, 34, will become New York City\u2019s next mayor, marking a historic victory. Many are celebrating, while others worry about the city\u2019s future, calling him a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24439,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions\/24439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}