Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin took another jab at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, telling reporters he’s a “radical socialist” who is “anti-law enforcement.”

Mullin launched his screed against Mamdani during a press conference on Thursday after a reporter asked him whether federal immigration operations in sanctuary cities like New York would differ from enforcement efforts elsewhere in the country.

“When you take somebody like Mamdani, who is just this radical socialist that’s anti-law enforcement, anti-police, it’s shameful because NYPD is awesome. They’re phenomenal to work with. They have the best crowd procedures, they have the best law enforcement agency,” Mullin said. “I’d put them up against just about any city around the country – and they have a pride about them of doing so.”

Mullin then accused Mamdani of not allowing the police to do their job.

“All these guys in the NYPD, they just want to go to work. They want to do something that they feel like they were called to do — and they’re great at it,” Mullin said. “But they got a leader that’s handcuffing them, and hopefully the people of New York will wise up and get a true leader in there in a few years.”

Mullin also slammed Mamdani over his meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office in November 2025 after publicly trading insults with the president for months.

“You see the way he treated President Trump? I mean, President Trump literally brought him into the Oval Office, let him stand beside him, tried to actually give the olive branch and say, ‘Listen, we can set our political differences [aside] together.’ But President Trump loves New York City. He loves the Knicks, too, obviously. And the fact, the way the mayor treated him once he left the Oval Office will tell you what type of man he is,” Mullin said.

Days after Mamdani’s surprisingly chummy meeting with the president, a reporter asked the NYC mayor if he stood by his previous comments alleging Trump was a fascist.

“That’s something that I’ve said in the past. I say it today,” Mamdani told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement, about the politics that has brought us to this moment. And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.”

Mamdani is a frequent target of Mullin’s ire. Earlier this week, after Mamdani renewed his call for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mullin alleged that the New York City mayor was “absolutely destroying a great city.”

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