NYC supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis went nuclear in June, when Zohran Mamdani, who had proposed opening a cheap city-run grocery story in each of the five boroughs, won the democratic primary for mayor. Catsimatidis held a press conference with Bodega owners; publicly threatened to shut down his 30-plus stores if the Democrat won the election; and ranted on TV. "He's not qualified... this is silly," he brayed on Faux News, comparing Mamdani to Fidel Castro. "It's one big con game." He also called Dummkopf Trumpf, who publicly backed his friend. "[Mamdani] actually wants to take over the grocery stores of John Catsimatidis, who's a great guy, a rich guy," Trumpf touted, whose net worth is $4.8 billion, "He actually called me the other day, he's concerned his stores are going to be taken from him, and they won't be run like John runs them, believe me, he runs a good operation."
The superrich Catsimatidis tried to get his WABC radio employee Republican Curtis Sliwa to drop out of the mayoral race. Now that Zohran Mamdani has been elected, Catsimatidis is once again agitating. "I think a lot of business people are reducing their exposure to NYC," he whined. Catsimatidis, whose $7.8 billion (revenue) Red Apple Group also owns a Pennsylvania oil refinery, some 400 convenience stores, and a portfolio of real estate stretching from New York to Florida, had been looking to move Red Apple's headquarters to New Jersey if Mamdani became mayor. He changed his mind after Tuesday's election. "New Jersey didn't go the right way" he blubbered, after the state resoundingly elected Democrat Mikie Sherrill as governor. Now, he's looking for "friendly states" to relocate operations, with Florida being the most likely candidate. "The key word is a common sense place to do business in," sniveled the mega oligarch who apparently doesn't make have enough money and wants to hoard it all for himself and not pay some more in taxes to help the poor people of New York City. Got it.
Sore loser mega-oligarch John Catsimatidis is a doppelganger of Jabba the Hutt.
