NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani appears on ABC’s “This Week” on June 28. Credit: ABC Screenshot

It turns out that Marxist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who presents himself as a smiling, smooth-talking salesman, is quite a different person behind the scenes. And it has spawned a new nickname which he won’t like.

The New York Post dropped a remarkable story on Thursday night, which extensively describes a mayor who becomes a nasty bully when things do not go his way.

The paper notes that Mamdani is easily angered not only by press criticism but also by people who dare to utter unflattering words toward him in public.

Mamdani even places personal phone calls to politicians he thinks will back off their attacks and eventually bow to him.

From the Post:

Social media-savvy Mayor Zohran Mamdani is developing a reputation IRL as “thin-skinned” and hyper-sensitive to public criticism, despite hyping himself online as a smiling and unflappable politician, scores of insiders spilled to The Post.

Behind the scenes, Hizzoner huffily badgers critics who dare question him publicly, harbors petty grudges against prominent pols, and often only responds to texts when he’s miffed about bad press, according to interviews with more than a dozen elected officials, consultants, and other politicos.

“I see more and more he cannot handle criticism, but mainly from elected officials who he thinks he can push around,” one political consultant said.

“The mayor personally reaches out when electeds criticizes him publicly. If they speak, then he cares. He cares because he doesn’t want bad press. It shows a sensitivity.”

A major sore spot for the narcissistic mayor is when he hears Jewish New Yorkers taking issue with his attacks on Israel. As we all know, Mamdani despises the Jewish State and has threatened to have Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrested.

Sources said the mayor personally called at least one elected official who attended the news conference, complaining about being told to tone down his rhetoric — and upset that their exhortation was connected to his video branding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal,” which was posted days before the attack.

NYC Democrat operatives and politicians went on to describe Mamdani as someone who uses his phone as “a security blanket” while obsessing over how many lies he gets on an X post.

And when Mamdani sees a post on X that mocks him, he throws a hissy fit.

Posts that harshed Mamdani’s mellow also included City Councilwoman Virginia Maloney (D-Manhattan) rebutting the mayor’s claim that a budget proposal by lawmakers cut services with a lashing, “I know math is hard.”

Maloney’s sarcastic post on X apparently drew Mamdani’s ire, and he reached out to her, sources said.

“That Virginia Maloney tweet really got under their skin,” a source said amid the spat.

This consistent childish behavior by Mamdani prompted The Post to bestow a new nickname upon him that may soon catch on with conservatives: Mayor Zoflake.

This combines his last name with snowflake, a word conservatives have long mocked hypersensitive liberals with.

LOOK:

Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive’ in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources. Read today’s cover here: https://t.co/OftXM1F0kH pic.twitter.com/36j4uyCqDi

— New York Post (@nypost) August 7, 2026

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