Zohran Mamdanis cringe influencer act reveals what hes really all about

Mr.Mayor, do you ever do any governing?That’s the question of the week after the latest barrage of promotional videos from Gracie Mansion nepo baby Zohran Mamdani, including one starring fellow socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.“Being a leftist means taking big shots,” Sanchez — currently beset by a government-wide corruption scandal and severe domestic unrest — intones in a clip released Saturday. “And making them,” Mamdani answers.There follows a heavily edited montage of Zo and Pedro playing trash basketball with a City Hall wastepaper bin, sinking shot after impressive shot.A cynic might suspect this isn’t quite how the game played out.The famously unathletic Mamdani struggled to bench-press a measly 135 pounds during a misguided campaign stunt, requiring help from a stronger spotter.Yet the question remains: Which shots, big or small, has he made?Look at his red-meat campaign promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.He was forced to beat a humiliating retreat on that after someone let him know the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute and doesn’t recognize the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction.So on Thursday, instead of protesting or somehow trying to make good on his big talk when Netanyahu came to town for the UN General Assembly (and personally called him out), Mamdani busied himself by making a video in which he “planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion.”Even more hilariously, he didn’t do any actual planting — just watched as others worked.Socialism in action!On Sunday, his official X account pushed out another vid of Mamdani running around City Hall to somehow get people excited about registering to vote.Thursday saw a high-production-value clip announcing a city-sponsored giveaway of 70,000 Metropolitan Opera tickets.The day before, he “split the G [train]” with Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin, in a stunt that made a winking reference to a Guinness-based drinking g...