New Delhi, July 3 -- New York's Indian-origin Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Thursday called US President Donald Trump "desperate," accusing him of launching personal attacks to divert attention from what Mamdani said as Trump's "war on working people."

In a post on X, Mamdani wrote, "Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back."

"Donald Trump said that I should be arrested. He said that I should be deported. He said that I should be denaturalised. And he said those things about me ... because he wants to distract from what I fight for," Mamdani said.

Since Mamdani's win, they have repeatedly highlighted his most controversial past comments and pos...