He’s no paesan. Italian Americans were outraged at mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani Monday after a social media post resurfaced showing him flipping the bird at a statue of Christopher Columbus and calling for its removal. The socialist Mamdani is seen in the tweet from June 2020 giving the middle finger to the back of the towering figure in Astoria, which is part of his state Assembly district.
“Take it down,” wrote Mamdani, who was running for state office at the time. The tweet left a bad taste in the mouth of Italian American groups in the Big Apple this week, including the Columbus Heritage Coalition. Angelo Vivolo, the group’s president, vowed not to support the lefty candidate come November. “We will defend Columbus Day and Columbus statues,” he told The Post.
