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Mamdani’s 100-day-in-office bash stems from ‘massive insecurity’

April 13, 2026 | | Print Article

As Gotham’s mayor took a propaganda victory lap with his Senate socialist chum, reactions to the administration’s milestone deemed the stunt “massive insecurity.”

Much like his campaign that relied on slick advertising, smug self-aggrandization, and empty promises, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) celebration to mark 100 days in office presented like a rose-tinted report card. The selective highlights amid the glossed-over failures proved sufficient for an insider of the previous administration to call out “how little they’ve actually accomplished.”

Having assembled at the Knockdown Center in Queens on Sunday alongside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) and others who praised the radical efforts of the administration, Mamdani was criticized by an insider of then-Mayor Eric Adams’ (D) administration who told the New York Post, ‘This whole thing is just massive insecurity about how little they’ve actually accomplished. And how much his poll numbers have dropped.”

The newspaper detailed how Mamdani cut library funding by $30 million instead of dedicating .5% of the city budget to them, was wasting more than a quarter of a billion dollars on a program to have social workers respond to non-violent emergency calls instead of police, and had bungled addressing the homeless problem to the point that numerous people had died during a winter storm.

Of course, rather than address those shortcomings, Hizzoner talked up presiding over the bare minimum expectations, like filling potholes, along with socialist endeavors like childcare programs and operating a grocery store.

“I am proud to announce that we will open every single one of these stores by the end of our first term, and the first one will open next year, stores where prices are fair, where workers are treated with dignity, and where New Yorkers can actually afford to shop at our stores, eggs will be cheaper, bread will be cheaper, grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation,” he asserted.

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Just the one city-owned store in East Harlem was detailed by the New York Times to cost $30 million, nearly half the proposed spending to operate five such stores across the boroughs.

“I have been on platforms with hundreds and hundreds of mayors and all kinds of public officials. This is the first time I was ever introduced by someone who talked proudly about democratic socialism,” said Sanders. “What the mayor is doing is providing hope and inspiration, not only to people all across our country, but honestly, all across the world.”

“What you guys are doing here is telling the world that we can have a government that works for all of us, not just the oligarchs,” added the career politician, at home in his wheelhouse of bashing the successful.

Worth noting, a Marist College poll found the mayor’s approval at only 48% compared to 61% for Adams over the same initial stretch.

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During his speech, Mamdani, who promoted the “warmth of collectivism” when inaugurated, expressed, “I have thought often of Margaret Thatcher’s quote, ‘The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess.”

“For 102 days, we have endeavored to do exactly that, delivering both public goods and public excellence. That is the change that government can deliver, and it is the change that democratic socialism can deliver,” he claimed, having already abandoned his free bus initiative and refocusing on shaving a few minutes off the commutes of those relying on public transportation — a move likely to increase congestion for everyone else.

The spun optimism was met with reality checks on social media as users called out the empty promises and continued failures of the administration.

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