Mamdani Had One Job at Ground Zero. He Still Managed to Make It About Himself. Over 110,000 people signed a petition asking Zohran Mamdani to do the single easiest thing a politician can do: nothing. Just stay home. Don't show up. Let a memorial for 2,977 murdered Americans be, shockingly, about the people who actually died and the families who actually loved them. Revolutionary concept, truly. He went anyway, because apparently main character energy doesn't take a day off, not even for Ground Zero. He also had to show off by attending for the radical muslim base which is to be disrespect to the families and the dead because, like Abdul and Hasan Piker, America deserved it! And then — plot twist nobody saw coming — during the reading of the victims' names, the most solemn ten minutes of the entire ceremony, he and AOC were caught grinning and giggling together on camera like they'd just heard the punchline of the century. Four whole seconds of footage. No audio. And somehow it still managed to say everything. More planned disrespect by the leaders of the DSA who are wanting to destroy America and Democracy! Now, his defenders have rushed in with the excuses, bless their hearts. "He stayed the whole ceremony!" Cool, gold star, here's a sticker. "He talked to families for 45 minutes after!" Wonderful, truly Nobel Prize behavior. "A state assemblywoman says people laugh and hug at these things all the time!" Sure, and I'm sure the guy visibly sobbing three feet away in the same shot was also just having a real normal, chill time, but that was their intent to down play this tragedy and make it seem insignificant to prove to the world that America is evil. When America knows the DSA is the evil demon trying to take over America! Here's a wild idea: if 110,000 people begged you not to come, maybe — just spitballing here — don't be the one animated, smiling face in a sea of grieving strangers reading their dead relatives' names off a card. That's not a high bar. That's a subterranean bar. That's a bar buried so deep it needs a mining permit. And he still managed to limbo underneath it and prove he is an absolute PRICK!. The "it's just four seconds out of context" defense is adorable, really. Nobody's going to remember the quiet, respectful 45 minutes. They're going to remember the mayor of New York City looking like he just got a good text message while a stranger wept into a microphone about their dead husband. You wanted the invite so badly you ignored the RSVP declining it on your behalf. The absolute least — the bare, rock-bottom minimum — you owed the room was not looking thrilled to be there. And somehow, spectacularly, he still couldn't clear that limbo stick, which proves he went there as a terrorist muslim to be disrespectful to the morning Americans because he hates America!