Op-Ed: Bigoted MAGA Republican Wants To Deport NYC Mayoral Nominee Zohran Mamdani, Calling Him ‘Little Muhamaad’
White conservatives have often claimed they’re fine with immigrants so long as they come to the U.S. “the right way,” meaning legally. This has always been a lie, and now they’re revealing that truth to anyone who didn’t already know it. If the notion that conservatives only objected to immigrants residing in the U.S. when their paperwork wasn’t in order wasn’t a big, fat lie, Republican voters would be far more outraged that their leaders are now calling on President Donald Trump to denaturalize and deport Zohran Mamdani.
As we previously reported, MAGA supporters across the MAGA-net, including GOP leaders, had gone into full meltdown mode over news that Mamdani had clinched the Democratic nomination in New York City’s mayoral race, defeating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and, apparently, pissing in the Cheerios of Islamaphobic bigots across America. Well, the frantic attacks on Mamdani have increased exponentially since — *checks notes* — Tuesday, and now even lawmakers, who should know there’s no precedent, cause or logic behind it, are calling for Mamdani, who was 7 years old when he and his parents migrated to the U.S., to be stripped of his citizenship.
On Thursday, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) posted on X: “Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York. He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings.” Attached to his post was a screenshot of a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to open an investigation into Mamdani.
Before we get to how far and wide Ogles is reaching in suggesting a legal reason to deport Mamdani, let’s take a look at the way the congressman began his tweet with explicit racism, right before accusing the presumptive Democratic nominee of being antisemitic.
Who the hell is “little Muhammad?”
Mamdani is Muslim, and, as mentioned earlier, white conservatives have not been shy about making his faith and ethnicity the central focus of their objection to him. “Little Muhammad” isn’t some cute nickname he came up with for himself, and he’s never been referred to as such in the media or by anyone else publicly. So, it appears that Ogles is quoting himself in a reference to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, which would make “little Muhammad” an ethnic slur, not that it would matter to xenophobic hypocrites who are only pretending to care about antisemitism to mask their own bigotry.
Another thing to note is that, like many MAGA Republicans, including Trump himself, Ogles has blindly accused Mamdani of being a communist, an allegation that is substantiated by absolutely nothing, but bolstered by the fact that your average MAGA conservative has no damn clue what communism actually is.
