Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani disclosed what he told Mayor Zohran Mamdani during their viral face-to-face exchange at Friday’s ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. The two men shook hands and briefly exchanged words at the Manhattan ceremony, which drew scores of political figures, including all living former presidents. Before the event, Giuliani had publicly opposed Mamdani’s attendance and claimed that the city’s first-ever Muslim mayor wants his religion “to dominate us.” In a livestream afterward, Giuliani, a Republican who was in office during the 2001 terrorist attacks, recounted his interaction with Mamdani, a democratic socialist elected last year.
All of the Muslims he supports are murderers.” Other Republicans, including former New York Governor George Pataki, also urged Mamdani to skip the event. Some cited his association with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who once said that “America deserved 9/11.” Mamdani, who has called the 2001 attacks “horrific,” confirmed before Friday that he would attend the ceremony, as previous mayors have. Last week, Mamdani also appeared to take a veiled swipe at Giuliani when he released more than 170,000 pages of internal records indicating that officials misled the public about the safety of the air around Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks.
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