Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, unleashed a scathing reaction on X after Zohran Mamdani’s election victory as New York City’s mayor.

In short, he doesn’t like the guy.

Portnoy quoted CNN commentator Scott Jennings, who called Mamdani “a great actor” for duping voters into thinking he was a man of the people when, in reality, his victory speech revealed a bitter, angry socialist ready to tax the hell out of people and businesses in the city.

“Scott Jennings sums up Mamdani perfectly. But if this is what the people of NYC want, then so be it,” Portnoy wrote. “Thank god I don’t live there anymore.”

Dave Portnoy is thinking about moving his business out of NYC

On Barstool’s “The Unnamed Show” podcast in the days leading up to the election, Portnoy vented his frustration with Mamdani’s radical socialist policies and threatened to move his company out of the Big Apple.

“If it was just me, I’d move the company out of New York City because I hate this guy so much,” Portnoy said. “But I won’t because there’s a lot of people in New York, and I don’t want to change their lifestyle for it.”

You could help their lifestyle by relocating them to a city that isn’t trying to destroy itself. That might work. And, as he stated, Portnoy is definitely still giving it some thought.

“I may close the New York office. Trust me, I’ve given it a lot of thought,” he added. “I told our finance guy to start looking around for property. No joke. Take a principled stand.”

“Thirty-something-year-old communist running New York City who’s never had a job in his life — hates America — doesn’t seem like the best.”

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Mamdani will destroy the city as we know it

Dave Portnoy’s outrage was fueled partly by Mamdani’s proposed tax hikes, including raising the corporate rate from 7.25% to 11.5% and a 2% income tax surcharge for individuals with incomes exceeding $1 million.

Portnoy and critics fear these progressive economic policies will drive businesses and wealthy residents to states like Florida and Texas.

And, in fact, reports and data reveal that nearly a million residents have stated they would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani were to become mayor, which he will.

While progressives celebrated Mamdani’s win as a “new era,” opponents, such as Portnoy, viewed it as a setback for the city’s business climate.

Will he leave the city that never sleeps behind and bring Barstool with him?