New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up to eulogize a fallen soldier Friday and the dead woman's family told him to stay seated — a blunt rejection that exposes how thoroughly working Americans have come to distrust leftist politicians who treat tragedy like a campaign stop.
Army Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad, 28, was one of three U.S. service members killed July 17 in an Iranian missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. Her funeral drew hundreds to Calvary Assembly of God in Ozone Park, the Queens neighborhood where she grew up. Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards spoke. Mamdani sat in the fourth row, scrolling through prepared remarks on an iPad, waiting for a name that was never called.
According to the New York Post, a source involved with the funeral's planning said the Rampersad family is pro-Trump and deliberately excluded the mayor. Another insider confirmed that Mamdani's outspoken left-wing politics cost him the customary mayoral speaking role.
