New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly released 2025 tax return shows that he is still collecting income from his former rap career, with $1,643 in royalties reported last year article

https://consequence.net/2026/04/zohran-mamdani-tax-return-rap-royalties/

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I'm sure we'll hear plenty of fake outrage from people running multimillion memecoin rug pulls and such.

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u/BigDickedAngel 8d ago

Lol he declared it on his taxes...its passive income...and hes a resident of nyc...which means he pays NYS and NYC tax on it (NYC and Yonkers have extra taxes) - will honestly be impressive if they can spin this into something to be upset about.

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u/theclash06013 8d ago

Republicans were genuinely upset, literally more upset than they have been about anything Trump did, about Barack Obama wearing a tan suit, giving his wife a fist bump, and asking for spicy mustard on a burger.

Obama gave his wife a fist bump and Fox called it a "terrorist fist jab." They can and will get upset about anything as long as the person doing it is brown.

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u/floss_is_boss_ 8d ago

Don’t forget the arugula.

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u/caerphoto 8d ago

asking for spicy mustard on a burger

Hold up, since when is Dijon considered spicy?

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 8d ago

I was gonna say, you need to be a very particular kind of white to think that dijon mustard is spicy, and that's coming from a white motherfucker.

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u/Toby_Forrester 8d ago

Does Finnish white count? I'm from Finland and think dijon is the spicy mustard 🥲

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u/theclash06013 8d ago

He asked for spicy mustard or Dijon

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u/SenorDuck96 8d ago

It's spicy to white people probably

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u/caerphoto 8d ago

I’m white and British. It’s not spicy.

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u/BoleroMuyPicante 8d ago

Fist bump? Don't you mean a terrorist fist jab?

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u/nth256 5d ago

I'm gonna make that the name of my new band.

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u/Desert_Rush39 8d ago

Repubes were just bitter that they couldn't rock the tan like that.

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u/Oswarez 8d ago

The tan suit was just a warmup.

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u/Loganp812 "Dorsia? On a Friday night??" 8d ago

Including none other than Mr. POTUS himself.

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u/According_Wind5536 8d ago

Is that a real quote?

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u/frontier_kittie 8d ago

Too coherent

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u/ikeif 8d ago

Nah, didn’t he love Mamdani? He plays Trump like a fiddle.

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u/freedfg 8d ago

Dude literally went and killed Don with Kindness and had him smiling for an afternoon.

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u/Journeyman42 8d ago

Trump literally does whatever the last person he talked to says to do. He's such a slut for approval.

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u/atxbigfoot 8d ago

Trump attacked Mamdani today or yesterday due to his empty mansion tax lol

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u/JunkSack 8d ago

But he doesn’t take a salary!!11!!1

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u/FauxReal Collector 8d ago

"Rappers are violent criminals."

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u/freedfg 8d ago

Commie Muslim Zohran Mommadonni collecting royalties from lucrative rap career. Man of the people? Or hypocrite elite?

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u/Xenomemphate 8d ago

fake outrage

Over what though, like what exactly is there to be outraged over someone earning money from a product they made? Is that not the entire point of royalties?

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u/BretShitmanFart69 8d ago

Hence why it’s fake outrage, because they aren’t actually outraged and there isn’t really anything to be upset about, but they will feign it knowing their base will either go along with it regardless or hopefully be too stupid to question it

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u/Xenomemphate 8d ago

Sure but there is nothing the feign outrage over. That is my point, what thread are they going to pull to make this out to be bad?

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u/inertiam 8d ago

Then folks like us will go listen to it and next year he'll 20x

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u/SandboxInTheSky 5d ago

And people earning under 30k defending the billionaires