Andrew Schulz Rips Dave Portnoy Over Mamdani Comments: ‘Stop Acting Like You Care!’
Comedian and podcaster Andrew Schulz called out fellow podcaster Dave Portnoy for “acting like” he cares about New York City with comments made last week about NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and arguing that his real beef is with the “Israel shit” that Mamdani has said.
Schulz and his team on the Flagrant podcast appeared on the Breaking Points podcast and spoke with host Saagar Enjeti on several topics, including Mamdani, in an episode filmed on the Flagrant set.
Portnoy came up during that discussion for his comments on Fox Business Network last week about the NYC mayoral election. Speaking with host Stuart Varney, Portnoy said Mamdani “is one of the worst, scariest candidates” out there.
“He calls himself a democratic socialist, he’s not, he’s a socialist,” Portnoy said last Monday. “He’s closer to a communist. He said it, he’s on the record saying he wants to put as many socialists in power so he can seize the means of production.”
“It’s a very scary time,” he said. “I can’t believe that this guy may be the mayor of New York City.”
Schulz, on his podcast last week, went a different direction, saying that Mamdani and other socialist candidates are the ones who actually put America and New York first, not Donald Trump and the Republicans.
“The only party right now that to me seems America First is the Democrat Socialist Party,” he said. “Bernie is America First. Mamdani, and all his ideas that he will not be able to execute, and I frankly think, many of them are not good ideas, but he is no doubt, New York First.”
When a user on X posted a quote from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon trashing Democrats as “idiots,” Portnoy floated the idea that Dimon was referring to comments like Schulz’s.
“I think he’s talking specifically about Andrew Schultz saying Mamdani is America First,” Portnoy wrote.
Schulz responded on X, reiterating his view about who is and is not putting Americans first:
And finally, while speaking with Enjeti, Schulz brought the whole thing up once more, saying that Portnoy isn’t really concerned with whether or not Mamdani is a socialist, but is instead upset about Mamdani’s many controversial statements about Israel.
“Portnoy is like, he’s a socialist, he is a communist, he doing all these things,” Schulz said. “It’s like, Portnoy, just say you’re upset about the Israel shit. Like, stop acting like, you don’t live in New York. Stop acting like you care.”
“Stop acting you care if like a socialist communist runs New York,” he said. “You’re upset because he said ‘Globalize the Intifada.’ Just make it about that. You’re allowed to make it about that.”
Enjeti then chimed in to minimize the controversial comments, saying, “They tried already, actually. How did that work out?”
Schulz continued:
You’re allowed to be upset about that. You should. Saying fucking globalize the intifada and then not backing it off, knowing what it means to people, it’s like that’s fucked up and you should be able to be held accountable for and he can be fucked up. But don’t give me this, I’m afraid of communism and socialism and try to attribute this thing Jamie Dimon said to me.
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I don’t care what nobody says about Mamdani if you’re not spending more than 51% of the year in this city. If you’re not spending more then 51% you’re not part committed. So just shut the fuck up about it. We’re the one that got to deal with it.
Watch the clip above via Breaking Points on YouTube.
