New York, New York - President Donald Trump slammed New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax in an angry, racially-charged social media post shortly after the policy was halted by a judge.
"The NYC Pied-à-Terre Tax is costing New York City and State a fortune in that the money, eventually to be gotten, is very little compared to the TAXES PAID by the tens of thousands of people who are fleeing the City, never to return," Trump baselessly claimed in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday.
"Florida, Texas, and numerous other States, are making an absolute fortune! This dangerous political 'experiment' in New York will destroy what was once a great City and State," he wrote.
Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax targets New York's wealthy elite with levies on owners of luxury second homes worth $5 million or more.
Staten Island Judge Wayne Ozzi on Monday entered a temporary restraining order blocking the tax until a lawsuit, filed last Friday by a collection of homeowners, is finalized.
The lawsuit doesn't challenge the tax itself, but instead argues the plaintiffs were wrongfully added to the list. Mamdani's administration filed an appeal of the order, keeping the tax in effect until the case can be heard by a higher court.
"Financial, and then Social, RUIN, is a 100% certainty – And then the Radical Left Jihadists charge Congestion Pricing on top of everything else," Trump continued, launching a racially charged attack against NYC's first Muslim mayor.
"I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, before it is too late, for the millions of people who cherish New York and want to see it thrive, as opposed to becoming a filthy, crime ridden, decrepit place of mockery and scorn."