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During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience over the weekend, Elon Musk told host Joe Rogan that NYC mayoral frontrunner Zorhan Mamdani is a “charismatic swindler.”
“Mamdani is a charismatic swindler,” Musk said. “I mean you gotta hand it to him, like, he can light up a stage, but he has just been a swindler his entire life.”
“If Mamdani’s policies are put into place, especially at scale, it would be a catastrophic decline in living standards, not just for the rich, but for everyone. As has been the case with every socialist experiment,” Musk added.
Mamdani’s platform calls for raising New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour by 2030 and increasing the corporate tax rate to match New Jersey’s 11.5% rate.
He also proposes eliminating bus fares, establishing universal childcare, and constructing 200,000 new “permanently affordable, union-built, rent-stabilized homes” over the next decade, alongside an immediate rent freeze for current tenants in rent-stabilized units.
Another centerpiece of Mamdani’s plan is the creation of city-owned grocery stores that would operate rent-free and without property taxes, buying and selling goods at wholesale prices to provide consumers with a “public option” in the grocery market.
Watch the clip below:
Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan: “Mamdani is a charismatic swindler. You’ve got to hand it to him, he can light up a stage. But he’s been a swindler his entire life. And he’s likely to win, likely to be mayor of New York City”
— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) November 2, 2025
Mamdani defended his proposed tax hikes in an interview with Martha MacCallum on Fox News’ “The Story” last month.
“I’ve said time and time again that I believe these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free, and I’ve said that the two clear ways to do so: raising personal income taxes on the top 1% by 2% and raising the corporate tax to match that of New Jersey’s corporate tax of 11.5%,” Mamdani said. “Now, if there are other ways to raise this money to fund this agenda, the most important thing is that we fund the agenda.”
