Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s press team accidentally released an advance copy of his speech marking America’s 250th birthday Friday -- revealing their painfully performative edits. 

The team of high-achieving Gen-Zers quibbled over fine points of American and Big Apple history, such as the minutiae of the revolutionary Battle of Brooklyn or when exactly the first Chinese immigrants arrived in the city.

In a tortured internal debate, the leftist do-gooders also bent over backward to be inclusive, arguing the word “slave” shouldn’t be used and that black people should be mentioned. 

“Given the fuss they tend to make, I wonder if we should mention the Catholics too,” one staffer suggested for a line about Puritans, Sikhs, Quakers, Muslims and Jews escaping religious persecution.

Mamdani’s speechwriter Julian Gerson dismissed the concern, scoffing, “meh we can’t get everyone.”

The address itself was a closely guarded event that didn’t allow any reporters inside or any access to the newly minted US citizens who stood alongside the mayor as he delivered the 15-minute speech.

City Hall did not address the rookie mistake, but a spokesperson said in a statement: “The speech adhered to the AP style guide which recommends the use of ‘enslaved people’ over ‘slaves.’

“The speech and the Mayor spoke to every community and the rich history, breadth, and diversity of those communities that make up New York City.”

Seventeen New York landmarks will shine red, white and blue starting the evening of the Fourth of July to mark the nation’s 250th birthday, state officials said.

“America’s fight for independence was shaped by the critical role that New York played in our nation's founding,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement.

“We are excited to welcome the tens of thousands of people who will be visiting our state to celebrate this momentous occasion with us, and we look forward to writing the next chapter of our history together.”

The star-spangled colors can be seen at the following locations:

• 1WTC
• Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge or better known as the Tappan Zee Bridge.
• Kosciuszko Bridge
• The H. Carl McCall SUNY Building
• State Education Building
• Alfred E. Smith State Office Building
• Empire State Plaza
• State Fairgrounds – Main Gate & Expo Center
• Niagara Falls
• The “Franklin D. Roosevelt” Mid-Hudson Bridge
• Grand Central Terminal - Pershing Square Viaduct
• Albany International Airport Gateway
• Lake Placid Olympic Center
• MTA LIRR - East End Gateway at Penn Station
• Fairport Lift Bridge over the Erie Canal
• Moynihan Train Hall
• Roosevelt Island Lighthouse

The young New York City mayor delivered a Fourth of July address in City Hall Friday behind George Washington's desk.

The roughly 15-minute speech celebrated the United States, but it was also used to criticize the country and its recent actions at home and abroad.

Mamdani delivered the speech flanked by newly naturalized US citizens.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims America's ideals are "strong enough to endure any authoritarian regime."

"But only if we reach for ours as a nation working each day towards the perfection in which it was conceived, a nation striving each day to better itself," he said.

Mayor Mamdani said that masked agents are "terrorizing our streets" in his July 4 speech.

"We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before springing them away in unmarked vans," he said, seemingly referencing ICE agents while lamenting the "contradictions" in America.

"We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands -- those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stones, he continued.

Mayor Mamdani used his soapbox during his Fourth of July speech to decry landlords, American capitalism and attack our foreign involvement in wars.

"I see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick, but that is not all I see when I look for America," he said. "I see too the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on her way home to check on an ailing neighbor."

"Yes, I see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model. I see it too in the father who tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, wakes before dawn to go to work, and still believes this country can do better by them," the mayor added.

"Yes, I see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts, when we sell our elections to the highest bidder," he continued.

Mamdani has been a staunch opponent of the US providing arm to Israel.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani kicked off his America 250 address with a nod to explorers Giovanni da Verrazzano and Henry Hudson — but notably left out Christopher Columbus.

"Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor," he said.

"Long before the name ‘New York’ had ever been spoken, Lenape dugouts crossed these currents. It was on these waters that tall masts crested the horizon, captained by explorers like Verrazzano and Hudson after whom we’ve named our bridges and rivers."

Mayor Mamdani used his 250th anniversary address to attack the rich, saying the country is a "nation of contradictions" with the first trillionaires being created.

"As we mark 250 years, what do we see?" he said.

"We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest nation in the history of the world—one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections," he continued.

"We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands—those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone—and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held in the soft hands of a precious few.:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes aim at the wealthy and powerful in his America 250 address.

"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else. I disagree," he claimed, adding, "America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place."

Mayor Mamdani took aim at the powerful, saying it has separated US citizens.

"The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes, the more strangers we invite in. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit," the mayor said.

"How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest. But time and again—including 250 years ago—those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress."

Mayor Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, said he and his family saw the Statue of Liberty like so many others when he came to the USA.

"My family did not arrive by boat, although we saw the Statue of Liberty from the window of the plane. Even from the air, we could make out the promise of America—the promise of the beautiful, patriotic work of rendering America, year after year, a little more faithful to its founding ideals."

Mamdani highlights freed slave James Weeks and Weeksville, which still stands today.

"In 1838, 11 years after New York outlawed slavery, a recently emancipated Black man named James Weeks sought to begin anew as well—and to help hundreds of others do the same. He bought property in Brooklyn, won himself the right to vote, and sold lots to others newly freed. When they landed in New York Harbor, they knew they had something waiting for them that they had never had before: a home."

Weeksville still stands today—a living, breathing testament to what we know America to be: a place each of us has the power to make."