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Vice President Vance slammed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a speech on the July 4 holiday weekend for the insult he called in “The Holiest Day.”
“Today is July 5, 2025, which means, as we all know, we celebrated the 249th anniversary of our nation's birth yesterday,” Vance said at a political award dinner at the San Diego Conservative think tank Claremont Institute on Saturday. “Now, the people who want to lead our largest city have multiple media coverage and never publicly mention Independence Day on Independence Day. But when he did this this year, that's what he said, and it's an actual offer.”
Vance then continued reading Mamdani’s Independence Day social media post, which read to some extent: “The United States is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country, even as we keep working hard to make it better.”
Since inauguration Day, the vice president has not shy away from calling on political leaders around the world to express his gratitude to the United States, noting that “there is no gratitude in these words” and “creating some awareness to the land and the people who have turned its wilderness into the most powerful country on Earth.”
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Zohran Mamdani was criticized for his July 4th, calling America “beautiful, contradictory, unfinished.” (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
“I wonder if he had ever read letters from Union soldiers to parents and lovers they would never see again?” Vance continued. “Have he ever visited the grave site of a loved one, and he gave his life to build a society that could escape racial theft and racial violence? Has he ever looked in the mirror and realized that he might not be alive, wasn't it because he dared to insult the generosity of this country on the holiest day?”
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“Who does he think he is?” Vance said.
Vice President Vance slammed New York City Mayor nominee Zohran Mamdani in a patriotic speech on the weekend of July 4. (Fox News/Special Report)
Democratic socialist Mamdani defeated his top rival, former New York State government Andrew Cuomo, in a poll for the Democratic primary in June, becoming the party's nominee. Mandani's victory is seen as a Democrat's call in the 2024 election, which has alienated some left-wing policies from Americans.
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Vance added in his San Diego speech that Uganda-born Mamdani had personally experienced first-hand escape from foreign dictatorships before finding shelter in the United States, but mayoral candidates still described the United States as incomplete and ambivalent.
Vice President JD Vance called on Mamdani to express his gratitude to the United States for its long history of sacrifice. (Fox News/Special Report)
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“When the tyrant Idi Amin decided to cleanse the Indian population of his country, Zohran Mamdani's father fled Uganda,” Vance said. “Mamdani's family fled violent racial hatred and only brought him into this country – a country built by people he never knew, full of generous people, radiating numerous havens to his family, a violent racial conflict that is common in world history, but it is not universal, but he dared to pay the price on the 249th commemoration, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, because it paid the price, and because it paid the price, because it was not common, and it was undoubtedly unhappy, and it was no doubt that his place was not honored. 'Contradiction.'”
Mamdani's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital's speech to Vance.
