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With the mayor-elect’s hand on his mother’s Koran, Zoram Mamdani takes the oath of office from New York native, Vermont Senator, and fellow Democratic Socialist and mentor Bernie Sanders.
The following is a transcript of Bernie Sander’s speech before he inaugurated Zoram Mamdani as mayor of New York City on January 1, 2026.
Thank you very much for inviting me to what has been an extraordinarily moving and beautiful afternoon. I’m here mostly to thank the people of New York City at a time in our country’s history when we are seeing too much hatred, too much divisiveness, and too much injustice.
Thank you for electing Zoram Mamdani as your mayor. New York, thank you for inspiring our nation. Thank you for giving us, from coast to coast, the hope and the vision that we can create a government that works for all, not just the wealthy and the few.
At a moment when people in America — and in fact throughout the world — are losing faith in democracy, over 90,000 of you in this city volunteered for Zeron’s campaign. You knocked on doors. You shared your dreams and your hopes for the future of this city. And in the process, you took on the Democratic establishment, the Republican establishment, the President of the United States, and some enormously wealthy oligarchs — and you defeated them in the biggest political upset in modern American history.
You showed the world the most important lesson that can be learned today: that when working people stand together, when we don’t let them divide us up, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.
Running a great and winning campaign was extremely difficult. But governing a city of eight million people, with all of its complexities and all of the problems that Zaron is inheriting, will be even harder. Zuron needed your help to win the election. Now he will need your help to govern. Grassroots democracy and people participating in the day-to-day struggles of this city will lead to good governance. Please remain involved.
You know, all of us have heard how Zoram Mamdani’s opponents have called the agenda he campaigned on radical — communistic — and absolutely unachievable. Really? That’s not what we believe. In the richest country in the history of the world, making sure that people can live in affordable housing is not radical. It is the right and decent thing to do. And in the midst of a massive housing crisis, it is exactly what the people of this city and this country want and need.
Providing free and high-quality child care is not radical. Countries all over the world have done it for years. It is what our kids require if they are going to be well prepared for school, and what working parents desperately need. It is, in fact, what every city in America should be doing.
Free bus transportation is not radical. It will save workers time and money, protect our environment, and make the city more efficient. And making sure that every family in the city, regardless of income, has access to decent-quality food at an affordable cost is not radical. Good nutrition keeps us healthy and helps prevent chronic illness. In the long run, city-sponsored grocery stores will save society money.
Lastly — and maybe most importantly — demanding that the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes is not radical. It is exactly the right thing to do. Today, while over 60 percent of our people — people in New York, people in Vermont, people all over this country — are living paycheck to paycheck, we have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had.
While tens of millions struggle to put food on the table, pay for health care, and pay for housing, the top 1 percent have never, ever had it so good. And yet there are billionaires and large corporations that pay almost nothing in taxes. That has got to end. And that will end.
The billionaire class in this city and in this country has got to understand that in America, they cannot have it all. That America — our great country — must belong to all of us, not just a few. And that lesson begins today in New York City.
Let me thank you all for the hope and inspiration that you are giving people all over this country. And now, it is my honor to swear in your new mayor.
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Again a prime example of Bernie only working for the voters that put him into office, New Yorkers and doing nothing for the people of Vermont which he supposedly represents! How is this benefiting Vermonters?
But there was reportedly, an immediate example of how “Collectivism” as they profess works, In the latest example of how socialism fails at even the smallest of matters, fans of the newly minted New York City mayor are apparently unhappy that Mamdani’s inaugural “block party” on Monday looked a bit more like a Soviet bloc party, at least in how well it was executed.
“Around 10,000 supporters stood outside City Hall during the event — billed as an ‘Inauguration for a New Era Block Party’ by Mamdani’s staff — crammed into several barricaded pens without access to bathrooms or any food concession stands,” reported the NY Post
How will this benefit Vermonters? Vermonters who profit from the housing market will benefit from the exodus from NYC, just as they did after 9-11-2001 and after New York’s atrocious handling of the COVID panic. Vermonters who are trying to afford a house will suffer from the competition.
Let’s see now – on 9/11/01, Mamdani’s homies rammed airliners into buildings and killed close to 3,000 people, yet NYCers are dim enough to elect him, a self confessed adherent of radical Islam, and who holds the stack of used toilet paper for him as he swears in? Bernie Sanders.
Again, I am embarrassed to be a Vermonter.
I have PTSD from 9/11 and I will never forget, unlike Bernie, who has obviously made a deal with the devil.
sworn on the koran, hours before.
Bernie has a failed legacy, this Zorhran is well spoken, no question. Most good marxists are very well spoken, they have to be, because if you aren’t a good liar, you won’t be able to carry your agenda.
Vermont has become the training ground for Marxism and it’s spread outside of our state. It really needs to stop.
I would comment but Guy won’t allow profanity.
Once again the Senator from Brooklyn N.Y. is an embarrassment to Vermonters . (at least to this native Vermonter)
On the bright side, we will have yet another example of the failings of socialism to cite, and the left will have another opportunity to say: socialism hasn’t been a success because it hasn’t been tried for long enough.
Look at YouTube at Sideshow Bobs acceptance speech when he was elected Mayor of Springfield. (The Simpsons)
Some things to know about New York housing…..
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2026/01/02/democrat-fraudsters-in-minnesota-have-apparently-stolen-more-than-the-gdp-of-somalia-but-its-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
Hear an interesting report this morning, a group of economists say the IRS takes in $2.4 Trillion in Income Taxes every year, we pay out $1.5 Trillion in Fraud! If fraud could be eliminated, remember the DODGE Waste Fraud and Abuse, anyone making under $200,000 a year would pay $0 in Federal Income Tax
Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker. Bernie you’re as much of a Vermonter as Aunt Jemima’s is real maple syrup.
New York City Government run food stores coming soon??????????? Looks like Trump likes this new mayor.
Nah, Trump is giving him just enough rope to hang himself. (Metaphorically, of course. I’m not looking for trouble.)
Just a big show for Bernie. Mamdani was sworn in just after midnight by the NY AG.
Now lets see, three buildings were blown up and fell into their own footprint on 911 caused by two airplanes. ANY QUESTIONS?????????
How in the world does Bernie have the authority to swear Mamdani in?
Don’t you have to have some kind of vested authority in the jurisdiction in which a government official is sworn in? What’s to prevent anyone from asking his mother or high school chum to do the swearing in?
What am I missing here?
Swearing in on the Koran???????
The Bible’s teaching is to love and forgive our enemies.
The Koran’s teaching is to kill them.