Comic slams ‘socialist’ Zohran Mamdani for consuming at fancy New York sushi restaurant: ‘Cash for me, not you’

Mamdani having dinner along with his spouse at a sushi restaurant in New York (Photograph: X)

New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has as soon as once more come below hearth, this time from comic and podcaster Michael Rapaport, who took intention at him for consuming at considered one of Manhattan’s costliest sushi eating places, calling into query the socialist’s “working class” picture.Rapaport posted a photograph of Mamdani eating at Omen Azen on Wednesday. The restaurant affords objects like a $27 kampai caviar appetizer and a 12-piece sashimi combo for $50, in keeping with the New York Submit.Throughout a debate final week, Mamdani mentioned he spends between $125 and $150 per week on groceries. Omen Azen’s nine-course seasonal tasting menu prices $145, that includes filet mignon, burdock soup and sashimi. “How can a ‘working class’ mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eat at OMEN SUSHI – one of the costly locations in New York?” Rapaport requested in X.He added: “The rent-stabilized ‘man of the folks’ from Queens is right here eating like a diplomat on a Qatari grant. Who’s paying the test, Zoron the Fool? You are not working class – you are fraud class.”Mamdani is a member of the Queens state meeting. The Ugandan-born chief has campaigned on affordability points together with hire freezes, free bus fares, city-run grocery shops, taxation of the wealthy and common childcare. Rapaport additionally poked enjoyable at Mamdani’s transportation selections, posting on Instagram: “Do you additionally suppose he took the prepare, bus or UBER again to his rent-stabilized condo in Queens?” He added that he would assist Mamdani’s electoral rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo, who known as Mamdani a “son of wealth.”“He grew up in Uganda — principally in a palace. Moved to Manhattan, grew up in a penthouse on the West Aspect, went to non-public faculty, $60,000 a yr and Bowdoin Faculty,” Cuomo mentioned on YouTuber and influencer Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast.Rapaport additionally mentioned Mamdani’s household historical past. Mamdani’s mom, acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, had tasks funded by Qatar’s state cultural establishments. Rapaport reposted a photograph of the Omen Sushi menu with the caption: “Enjoyable truth: 12 items of sushi value $50 at Omen… Mamdani is a typical ‘cash for me, not you’ socialist parasite.”In response to criticism of his personal feedback, Rapaport wrote on