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What Mamdani’s planned ‘troll-farm offensive’ reveals about the City Hall braintrust

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Post Editorial Board. (2026, October 1). What Mamdani’s planned ‘troll-farm offensive’ reveals about the City Hall braintrust. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/01/opinion/what-mamdanis-planned-troll-farm-offensive-reveals-about-the-city-hall-braintrust/

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The article discusses an alleged plan by Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration to launch a social media campaign targeting top city CEOs, labeling them as enemies of the people. The author speculates that insiders within City Hall leaked this information due to the scheme's potential negative consequences for Mamdani’s reputation and political aims. The piece criticizes the use of city resources for such political maneuvers, suggesting they will likely backfire and alienate business leaders rather than sway them or public opinion.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inner circle is planning to launch a coordinated social media campaign against top New York CEOs, using a 200-strong "influencer army" and taxpayer funds. The plan, revealed by sources close to City Hall, aims to smear business leaders in support of Mamdani's tax-and-spend agenda. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and Jeff Blau of Related Companies are potential targets over issues like drug prices and the Hudson Yards expansion project. Critics argue that such tactics will backfire and do little to win public or legislative support for increased taxes.

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It looks like City Hall still has some grownups; who else could’ve spilled the beans on the latest idiocy plotted by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s brainless trust — a troll-farm offensive against top city CEOs? uncertain

who → look → CEOs

Our news-side colleagues haven’t shared their sources on the plans for a major social-media campaign blasting biz leaders as the latest enemies of the people; we’re simply deducing the existence of leakers on the mayor’s team who saw this scheme could only blow up in Mamdani’s face. uncertain

who → share → face

Exactly as did the mayor’s infamous Tax Day video doxxing and denouncing hedge-funder Ken Griffin, and his farcically broad “pied-à-terre tax” class-warfare target list. asserted

video → do → Griffin

We’re not simply outraged at spending city resources on political agitprop demonizing private citizens as exploiters and parasites. asserted

We → ’re → exploiters

Yes, those moves jazzed the Mamdanista inner circle, who need to believe they’re scoring for socialism, and cheered the ressentiment regiments of his voting base — but that’s all the good it did. asserted

it → jazz → base

Nor will mobilizing his paid influencers to gin up a new Eat-the-Rich hate-fest actually help win massive state tax hikes next spring, as the planners pretend. asserted

planners → mobilize → hikes

Even most Democrats in Albany are tiring of the mayor; they might be happy to raise taxes, but only to fund their own agendas, not his. So the smear campaign can only (further) alienate its targets without actually harming them, since CEOs sleep just fine at night despite Cousin Comrade’s YouTube yucks, Bluesky blasts and Instagram insults. uncertain

CEOs → tire → yucks

(Of course the attacks might prompt them to think again about how much easier it is to do business in West Palm . . .) uncertain

it → prompt → Palm

Yes, social media can carry real power, but it’s no magic wand to grant the wizards’ every wish — and the mayor’s team has actual work to do just to keep city government functioning. Maybe the staff stuck with that thankless task are just as happy for the mayor to make videos and leave them alone; perhaps it’s the only “work” he’s truly qualified to do. asserted

he → carry → them

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