Overview
- Voight posted a video on Nov. 14 asking President Donald Trump to overturn Mayor‑elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory, using the word “terminate.”
- In the video, Voight claimed Mamdani would turn New York into a “socialist crap city” and used Islamophobic rhetoric about “radical Muslim ideology.”
- Variety notes the presidency lacks legal authority to remove a New York City mayor or nullify a city election.
- Mamdani, a self‑described democratic socialist, won earlier this month by nearly 10 points over Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa and is set to take office Jan. 1, 2026.
- Voight has been a loyal Trump ally, receiving the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2019 and being labeled a “special ambassador” to Hollywood by the president.