Robert Davi, the guy who played one of the baddies in Die Hard and the villain in The Goonies (typecast much?), has decided that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani needed a verbal beatdown. And boy, did he deliver one. As The American Tribune reported, the whole thing started because the mayor's office published an "NYC Immigrant Enclaves" map highlighting 30 ethnic neighborhoods for tourists, and somehow managed to leave out Little Italy, the Irish neighborhoods, and the Jewish communities. That is genuinely impressive. You had one job: celebrate immigrant diversity. And you forgot the Italians. In New York City. That is like making a map of pizza toppings and forgetting cheese.
Davi, who is 75 and was born in Astoria, Queens, took to X to let Mamdani know exactly how he felt about the oversight. He called the mayor a "jerk" and a "garbage man," which honestly sounds like dialogue from a movie Davi would star in.
"I hope every New York Italian American and Irish American spits on you when they see you," Davi said. "I would spit on you if I saw you. Shame on you, you garbage man. Shame on you. Respect the city you're in and understand the people who helped build it. My grandparents came from Sicily and Naples and they taught me, 'speak the English. This is America.' God bless America."
Davi then talked about his grandfather enlisting in World War I and getting wounded three times, and how he helped build New York City as an Italian immigrant. The actor, an outspoken conservative, then called Mamdani a "leftist Marxist Communist" and told him to leave the country.
"Go back to where you were born, Mamdani. You don't belong in America," Davi said, according to a report from Breitbart. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and immigrated to the United States when he was seven.
Davi also argued that people born in foreign countries should not hold public office, saying they should "spend time in America, at least a generation," especially those coming from countries with different philosophical ideologies.
The mayor's office, meanwhile, tried the classic government move of blaming the previous administration. A spokesman for Mamdani claimed the tourist program was actually developed under former Mayor Eric Adams. They also said that Irish, Jewish, and Italian neighborhoods will be added to a forthcoming map. So basically: "We inherited this mess, but also we are going to fix this mess that we definitely did not create but also kind of did not fix when we had the chance."
Mamdani is an avowed socialist who somehow managed to unite Italian Americans and Irish Americans in anger, which is historically not an easy thing to do. If nothing else, the man is a unifier. Just probably not in the way he intended.
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