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President Donald Trump again spoke out against transgender athletes competing against women and took aim at weightlifters again.
But this time New York’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, found himself in the crosshairs.
Speaking at the America Business Forum in Miami, Trump took a swipe at trans athletes, claiming “men” competing in “women’s sports” are “over.” However, he said a “man” won “one of these all-day races” by five hours and 18 seconds “the other day.”
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President Donald Trump said New York’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, “thinks it’s wonderful to have men playing in women’s sports.” (Adam Gray and Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
“What about the weightlifting? 218 pounds by a woman, that’s a lot to lift overhead. 218 pounds, or whatever it was, was the record. A man broke the record by 100 pounds. It was, like, 17 years or something. A man broke the record by 100 pounds. He was a failed weightlifter, but he was a failed woman,” Trump said. mimics a weight lifter. “People are crazy.
“And Mamdani, whatever the hell his name is, in New York. He thinks it’s wonderful to have men playing women’s sports.”
It’s not clear which 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 Pakinomist Digital.
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani arrives for a press conference after casting his vote at a polling place inside the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School in the borough of Queens, New York, U.S., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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He appeared to be referring to the University of Pennsylvania stripping transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of the school’s women’s records earlier this year.
“The swimming is also good. Records are being broken at numbers that no one thought were possible. But many of those records are being changed back to 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, recreating a scenario in which the woman loses a competition to a trans opponent.
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, US, November 5, 2025. (Marco Bello/Reuters)
Mamdani is set to take over as the city’s next mayor in January after defeating Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa.
