{"id":21476,"date":"2026-04-17T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-claims-mamdani-is-destroying-new-york-with-proposed-second-home-tax\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:22:14","slug":"trump-claims-mamdani-is-destroying-new-york-with-proposed-second-home-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-claims-mamdani-is-destroying-new-york-with-proposed-second-home-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims Mamdani is &#8216;destroying New York&#8217; with proposed second-home tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump claimed that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is &ldquo;destroying&rdquo; the city with his new proposed tax on second homes &mdash; perhaps his most direct criticism of the Big Apple&#8217;s leader since their two friendly White House meetings months ago.&nbsp; The president responded to the mayor&rsquo;s plan in a Thursday post on&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5835790-trump-criticizes-mamdani-tax\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump claimed that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is &ldquo;destroying&rdquo; the city with his new proposed tax on second homes &mdash; perhaps his most direct criticism of the Big Apple&#8217;s leader since their two friendly White House meetings months ago.&nbsp; The president responded to the mayor&rsquo;s plan in a Thursday post on&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}