Gutfeld! Monologues - Socialism In NYC

Episode Date: January 3, 2026

As seen on Gutfeld!, NYC has a new mayor and guest host Tom Shillue picks apart Mamdani's inauguration speech. Tom says good luck to New York under their radical socialist mayor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Good Evening, everyone in for Greg, on this very special edition of Greg on this very special edition of Gutfeld. Since it's the first show of the new year, let's see how some of our friends are celebrating 2026. Joe Biden is replacing his embalming fluid with champagne. Greg is writing 2026 new Joy Behar jokes. Kamala Harris is still nursing a killer hangover. Rashida Talib is shaving 2026 into her. beard.

And finally, Zohran Mamdani is working hard at pretending to like Jews. We'll be back with more Gutfeld. This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. So, New York City is ringing in the new year with a new mayor, Zoran Mamdani.

The man who proved anyone can make it in this town, as long as they're a Democrat who doesn't kill the elderly. Yes, yes. Zoran was sworn in at City Hall on New Year's Day as New Yorkers got started on their New Year's resolution, throwing themselves in front of more subway trains. Oh, crap. He was the first mayor to be sworn in. on the Koran. Meanwhile, a few blocks over, the Freedom Tower was saying, Hey, guys, remember me? Then he gave his inauguration speech, or what I like to call the Big Apple's last will and

testament. Let's see what Zoran has planned. Does he stand alongside us? I stand alongside you. The tens of thousands of you gathered here in lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope. Okay, January cold, hope warm. Got it. But that warmth is coming from BLM lighting police cars on fire. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism

with the warmth of collectivism. What is this? The Coln-Marx Weather Channel? So collectivism is warm too. Siberia would beg to differ. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations. Hey, don't knock small expectations. They're good. We tell our studio audience Greg is two feet tall, so they're pleasantly surprised when they see he's three foot five.

But, okay, what are these big expectations of yours? Beginning today, we will govern expansively and, audaciously. We may not always succeed, but never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try. It's a will like that that got Mom Dani all those job offers from his mom. We expect greatness from the cooks wielding a thousand spices, from those who stride out onto our Broadway stages, and from our starting point guard at Madison Square Garden. Let us demand the same from those who work in government. Did you just compare the Knicks to government employees?

I think you're thinking of the Pacers. I stand alongside countless more New Yorkers, watching from cramped kitchens in flushing and barbershops in East New York, from cell phones propped against the dashboards of parked taxi cabs at LaGuardia. I stand alongside construction workers in steel-toed boots and halal cart vendors who's

knees ache from working all day. Pretty sure he confused halal cart vendors with prostitutes. But, wow, he's trying really hard to be inclusive. I stand alongside over one million New Yorkers who voted for this day nearly two months ago. And I stand just as resolutely alongside those who did not. Sure, like cops, Jews, and those people in white. neighborhoods whose taxes you pledge to raise. Those in rent-stabilized homes will no longer dread the latest rent hike because we will

freeze the rent. These policies are not simply about the costs we make free, but the lives we fill with freedom. For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it. Our city hall will change that. I'm sure he will by making freedom so expensive. no one can afford it. I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.

Great. Plenty of countries have tried socialism and it worked out for them. Venezuela had Latin America's highest standard of living. Now they're making empanadas out of zoo animals. There are many who will be watching. They want to know if the left can govern. They want to know if the struggles that afflict them can be solved. They want to know if it is right to hope again.

And there won't be a shortage of hope now, hoping the lights will come back on. Hoping a ten-time felon won't stab you on your way to work. Hoping the rats won't unionize. So standing together with the wind of purpose at our backs, we will do something that New Yorkers do better than anyone else. else. We will set an example for the world. The work continues. The work endures. The work, my friends, has only just begun. Thank you.

Hold on. Was that a Nazi salute? Look at it. That's what Elon did. Doesn't that make him a fashion? I'm not going to do it. I'll get in trouble. Good luck, New York. Your new mayor is an inexperienced socialist, radical,

who wants to tear down capitalism and make life as free as a ticket to one of Sherrod's shows. Whoa. That's only on Groupon. His whole brand isn't about fixing a broken system. It's about gaming it to win power. lecturing everyone else for playing by the rules. Maybe one day he will make life safer and more affordable for New Yorkers,

but probably just those who take their U-Haul to Palm Beach. Listen ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts. And Amazon Prime members can listen to this show, ad-free on the Amazon Music app.