Resurfaced Mamdani interview ignites internet frenzy over alleged 'fake' Ugandan accent

A resurfaced 2016 interview with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sparked conservative backlash Wednesday after critics accused him of using a "fake" Ugandan accent while promoting his mother's Disney film.While promoting Queen of Katwe during a 2016 interview on South Africa's Kaya 959 radio station, Mamdani discussed Ugandan culture, dance and music, telling the host he was "from Uganda" but also grew up in New York."The difference for me is I'm from Uganda, but I also grew up in New York.In New York, you go out, some guys are very hesitant to dance," Mamdani said."You know, if they're not grinding, they're just standing.

In Kampala, you will just not find that.People are all dancing.

Everybody's dancing, men, women and it's fantastic that way."AOC ACCUSED OF PUTTING ON NEW ACCENT DURING MEMPHIS RALLY: 'GOING FULL KAMALA'New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during an announcement on municipal grocery stores at a Campaign for Hunger community food distribution center in the Brooklyn on July 27, 2026.(Adam Gray / Bloomberg via Getty Images)The clip, which also resurfaced last year, quickly spread across social media again and prompted a wave of mockery."Look at theater kid commie Mamdani running another fake accent and appropriating African culture.

Communists are all frauds.EVERY single one.

Don't ever trust a communist, or else you'll get Galloway'd and stranded in a gulag," former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt posted on X.In another post on X, The Benny Show host Benny Johnson wrote, "UNEARTHED: Zohran Mamdani does an obviously fake Ugandan accent while promoting a Disney movie based in Africa.How many Democrats have been caught using fake accents at this point? They're all frauds.""Anyone else notice Mamdani's accent change? He must've studied at Obama University," Twitter Spaces host and conservative social media commentator Tara Bull posted on X.MAMDANI’S ‘DERANGED’ ISRAEL TAKE RESURFACES AS HE TARGETS NETANYAHUSpencer Pratt campaigns ...