Vice President JD Vance skewered Big Apple mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani after the lefty-pol delivered a teary speech about his Muslim aunt’s fear in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,” Vance wrote Saturday morning on X, sharing a clip of the socialist candidate choking back tears as he recalled the anti-Muslim bias his family experienced in the aftermath of 9/11.
Mamdani – who beamed in a photo with an unindicted co-conspirator from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing – vowed on Friday to champion the Big Apple’s Muslim community after sharing that his frightened late aunt stopped riding the subway at the time, saying she “did not feel safe in her hijab.”
His impassioned remarks came after fending off repeated attacks from mayoral rivals — former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa — who branded him antisemitic over his anti-Israel views.
“The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated as any other New Yorker, and yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive,” Mamdani said during a press conference outside the Islamic Cultural Center of The Bronx on Friday.
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“No more. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I’m proud to call my own. But there is one thing that I will change. I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light.”
The 34-year-old Queens Assemblyman also accused Cuomo and Sliwa of fueling Islamophobia in an effort to sabotage his campaign before early voting kicked off Saturday morning.
Cuomo on Thursday chuckled at the suggestion that Mamdani, who is Muslim, would “be cheering” if “another 9/11” happened, during a radio interview with conservative WABC host Sid Rosenberg.
“Any given moment, there’s a crisis, and people’s lives are at stake. God forbid, there’s another 9/11. Can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?” Cuomo asked Rosenberg.
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“He’d be cheering,” Rosenberg retorted.
The Democrat also accused Sliwa of “slandering” him by claiming during Wednesday’s final mayoral election debate that the grinning pro-Palestine candidate supports “global jihad.”
And he slammed Mayor Eric Adams for saying “New York can’t be Europe, you see what is happening in other countries because of Islamic extremism” as he endorsed Cuomo’s independent bid Thursday.
If elected, Mamdani would become the first Muslim mayor of the Big Apple.
Mamdani did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
