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President Donald Trump once again spoke out against transgender athletes competing against women, once again taking aim at weightlifters.
But this time, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani found himself in the crosshairs.
Speaking at the America Business Forum in Miami, Trump attacked trans athletes, claiming that “men” competing in “women’s sports” is “over.” He did say, however, that a “guy” won “one of those one-day races” by five hours and 18 seconds “the other day.”
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President Donald Trump said New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani “thinks it’s great that men play women’s sports.” (Adam Gray and Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
“How about weightlifting? 218 pounds for a woman, that’s a lot to lift above your head. 218 pounds, or whatever, was the record. A man broke the record by 100 pounds. It stood for like 17 years or something. A man broke the record by 100 pounds. He was a failed male weightlifter, but as a woman, he did very well,” Trump said, imitating a weightlifter. weights. “People are crazy.
“And Mamdani, whatever his name is, in New York. He thinks it’s wonderful to have men playing women’s sports.”
It’s unclear what race or weightlifting event Trump was talking about. Mamdani has not made any public comments about transgender athletes in women’s sports. A representative for Mamdani did not immediately respond to an email from Pak Gazette Digital.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani arrives at a news conference after casting his vote at a polling station inside Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts in the Queens borough of New York, U.S., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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He appeared to reference the University of Pennsylvania stripping transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of the school’s women’s records earlier this year.
“Swimming is good, too. Records are being broken by numbers that no one thought possible. But a lot of those records are being put back where they should be,” Trump said.
Trump spoke out against trans weightlifters at the University of Alabama earlier this year, doing a physical impersonation of a female weightlifter and a trans weightlifter, and recreating a scenario in which the woman loses a competition to a trans opponent.
US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, US, on November 5, 2025. (Marco Bello/Reuters)
Mamdani will take over as the city’s next mayor in January after defeating Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa.
