One of CNN’s most notorious TV egoists surprises viewers every once in awhile by displaying a modicum of common sense in the face of leftist politicians running economies into the mud. His recent repudiation of blue city spending is no exception.
CNN host Fareed Zakaria actually ripped how Democrat strongholds like New York City were “out of control, promising more, spending more, delivering less and pushing off fiscal problems to some future day,” in an X post promoting a February 23 segment of Fareed Zakaria GPS.
In a stunning display of red-pilling, Zakaria directly called out the newly minted communist NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani for being the poster child for radical Dems steering their cities into economic brick walls: “Zohran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York affordable.” However, rebuked Zakaria, “Last week, he unveiled a budget that is — in a word — unaffordable.”
Mamdani’s gargantuan $127 billion budget is being bolstered largely by massive tax hikes (including a 9.5 percent property tax increase). This economically inept agenda even reportedly left many members of the Democrat-controlled city council “shaking their heads,” thinking that “Mamdani should be slashing city spending before even considering spiking taxes on their constituents,” according to the New York Post. Zakaria analyzed that NYC has already been “fiscally profligate” for so long, and Mamdani’s latest scheme was “similar to the annual expenditures of a mid-sized nation” like Greece or Thailand.
Blue cities are out of control, promising more, spending more, delivering less and pushing off fiscal problems to some future day.
— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) February 22, 2026
Democrats in city halls should stop governing as if the goal is to announce new entitlements, and instead make government work.
My take: pic.twitter.com/kwYkA4XEjx
Zakaria further rebuked in his X post that “Democrats in city halls should stop governing as if the goal is to announce new entitlements, and instead make government work.” Bless his heart for actually arguing like efficient government can be a real thing.
It’s unclear what’s causing this 180-degree turnaround for Zakaria, given that he was on record fawning over the abomination of Bidenomics. In July 2024, Zakaria praised President Joe Biden for allegedly using “the resources of the federal government to make large investments in infrastructure, child care, manufacturing, and energy.” “Large investments” is a funny way of describing Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending that helped launch the United States into the worst inflation crisis it experienced in 40-years. Isn’t Mamdani just adopting a similar playbook?
We guess even Mamdaninomics is a bridge too far for the Biden-loving CNN host.
