President Trump warned New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to "be a little bit respectful" after the self-proclaimed socialist attacked him in his victory speech.

Trump was asked in an interview by Fox News host Bret Baier to respond to Mamdani’s Tuesday-night statement, “Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

“That’s a very dangerous statement for him to make,” the president told the “Special Report” host.

“He has to be a little bit respectful of Washington,” Trump, 79, said of Mamdani, 34. “Because if he’s not, he doesn’t have a chance of succeeding. And I want to make him succeed. I want to make the city succeed — I don’t want to make him succeed, I want to make the city succeed.”

Trump, who denounced Mamdani as a “communist” repeatedly Wednesday, said he was open to speaking to the incoming mayor of his hometown.

“I would say he should reach out to us, really. I think he should reach out. I’m here,” Trump said. “We’ll see what happens, but I would think that it would be more appropriate for him to reach out to us.”

Ex-Gov Andrew Cuomo told The Post he believes the Democratic Party is “headed down a dangerous road,” in his first public sighting since losing to lefty mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. 

“I’m very proud of the effort that we ran. It was an important message and an important campaign,” Cuomo said while walking with his daughter, Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo, on Wednesday evening.

“I think New Yorkers heard us … I think this city, the Democratic Party is headed down a dangerous road, and the campaign was about pointing out the issues and the potential pitfalls, and I think it worked very well,” Cuomo continued.

Cuomo, 67, conceded Tuesday night after receiving 42% of the Big Apple’s vote. 

He mounted an independent run against Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa after losing the Democratic mayoral primary in June.

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President Trump said after far-left state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani was elected New York City mayor Tuesday, the country has a “choice between communism and common sense.”

The Republican, who has ruthlessly slammed the socialist, claimed Democrats “installed a communist as a mayor of the largest city in the nation.”

 "After last night's results, the decision facing all Americans could not be more clear, we have a choice between communism and common sense,” he said.

“As long as I’m in the White House, the United States is not going communist in any way shape or form,” Trump added.

The president tossed out a last-minute endorsement of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a bid to stop Mamdani’s rise to power.

He also threatened to pull some federal funds from the Big Apple if Mamdani clinched the election.

"I hope it works out for New York," he said Wednesday. "We'll help him a little bit, maybe."

The Post’s Nov. 5 cover featuring Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has gone the way of capitalism -- selling out of newsstands in the Big Apple and already being peddled on e-bay for $25 a pop.

One e-bay seller – who has peddled other Post covers from the likes of Charlie Kirk’s assassination to Trump’s Yankees bid – has already sold out of two dozen copies priced at $14.25 each before 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. 

Another seller sold four copies for $25 a pop, and yet another sold four for $20 each.

“There’s sometimes a sort of kitschy quality to the way they sensationalize stuff,” New Jersey resident Chiquita Wilder, whose own CVS was out of copies, told The Post. “I think it’s funny in a way how extreme they get, and the cover of The Post today is doing a … similar thing.”

Readers need not fret the lack of issues available, however, as the official New York Post store is now selling the cover, just in time for the holidays!

Far-left Democrat Zohran Mamdani secured a historic victory in the NYC election with 50.4% of the vote. Independent Andrew Cuomo received 42% and Republican Curtis Sliwa 7.1%.

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For New York’s Jews, these are the worst of times and the best of times.

The worst part is obvious: it’s not just that 1 million of our neighbors sauntered to the ballot box and cast their votes for an anti-Semite who missed no opportunity to stand with terrorist sympathizers and Jew-haters; it’s also that our very own communal organizations, groups founded specifically to prevent a movement like Mamdani’s from rising, failed miserably.

The city with the largest Jewish population anywhere outside of Israel should’ve seen Mamdani coming. And its Jewish leaders should’ve done much better to stop him.

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Mayor Adams swiped at mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani Wednesday morning saying that the next mayor needs to honor Big Apple veterans.

Adams lamented younger Americans lack of patriotism throughout the speech and noted how the city will continue to honor veterans of different wars with public events.

"It is imperative that no matter who is the next mayor, they must bring in the same belief and philosophy that this city is a city where veterans have provided a way for not only New York but our entire country," Hizzoner said at a Veterans Day Breakfast event in Manhattan.

Mayor Adams said as his tenure in City Hall winds down, he’s ready to "have so much fun."

“Number one thing I’m gonna do is I’m gonna have fun. I plan to have so much fun of just enjoying life,” Adams told reporters Wednesday.

“Do you know how good it feels that I don’t have to get up and go about a 12-hour day? That I can spend time with who I want. I can travel again. I’m just going to have fun. This has been good. I’ve been a good and faithful servant for this city for 40 years.”

Adams has described himself as the “nightlife mayor” and once said, “I hang out with the boys at night and I get up with the men in the morning.”

Adams, who backed Andrew Cuomo for mayor, said he was relieved when the election results rolled in because he can now take a vacation.

“People don't know what it's like being mayor" he explained. "Yes, there's a lot of glamour in that title, but remember you can't leave the city or you gonna get beat up.”

“So when the results came in I was like now it’s time for someone else to do this," he continued.

A national Jewish civil rights watchdog group is launching a "Mamdani Monitor" to check Mayoral-elect Zohran Mamdani's incoming administration for antisemitism.

The Anti-Defamation League said the group will scrutinize the background of Mamdani appointees and funding of organizations to see if they are hostile to Jewish people.

The organization also will create a specific "New York City Antisemitism Tipline" amid a surge in reports of anti-Jewish hatred following the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza.

 ADL CEO and national director Jonathan Greenblatt said the unprecedented action is necessary because Mamdani espouses views that are antisemitic and associates with people who fan Jew hatred.

"The BDS campaign is antisemitic. Whether intentional or not, that's what BDS is," Greenblatt told The Post Wednesday, referring to the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel supported by Mamdani.

'It leads to violence against the Jewish people. It seeks to delegitimize the Jewish state. It leads to bad things."

He also noted that Mamdani doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.

"We want the Jewish people to know we have their back," Greenblatt said.  

In a separate statement, he said Mamdani "has promoted antisemitic narratives, associated with individuals who have a history of antisemitism, and demonstrated intense animosity toward the Jewish state that is counter to the views of the overwhelming majority of Jewish New Yorkers."

"We are deeply concerned that those individuals and principles will influence his administration at a time when we are tracking a brazen surge of harassment, vandalism and violence targeting Jewish residents and institutions in recent years."

Greenblatt said he expects Mamdani to stand up against antisemitism in the city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, and where the ADL is headquartered.

"We will hold the Mamdani administration accountable to this basic standard,” said Greenblatt.

Other Jewish groups alarmed by Mamdani's victory have put out statements saying they will fight against any Jew bashing in city government -- among them the New York Solidarity Network and the UJA Federation. 

The Mamdani campaign had no immediate comment.

But Mamdani, during the campaign, promised to devote more resources to combat antisemitism and other forms of bigotry.

Mamdani hasn’t heard from Mayor Eric Adams or President Trump since his election night win Tuesday.

He said he spent time with his family and close members of his team as results came in, and then briefly spoke with GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa before heading to his election viewing party.

He said Wednesday morning Adams hasn’t invited him to City Hall yet, but he looks “forward to having those conversations.”

Adams said Wednesday he plans on inviting Mamdani to Gracie Mansion during the transition period.

He said he’s also ready to talk with Trump, who has viciously slammed the far-left pol.

 “I continue to be interested in having a conversation with President Trump on the ways in which we can work together to serve New Yorkers,” he said. 

Zohran Mamdani said he’s open to having conversations with billionaires against his socialist run for mayor, including Bill Ackman and Jamie Dimon.

Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital, tweeted his congratulations to Mamdani after results showed he was on the way to winning the mayoral election.

“Now you have a big responsibility,” he tweeted. “If I can help NYC, just let me know what I can do.”

Mamdani said he appreciated Ackman’s tweet and is willing to work with anyone on the city’s vitality.  

Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has also criticized Mamdani, describing him as “more a Marxist than a socialist.”

Mayor Adams believes he is the future of the Democratic Party.

When asked by reporters at a press conference whether Mamdani is the future of the Democratic party, Hizzoner was blunt.

"No, I think I am," the former Republican who had trouble cracking into double digit support during the election said.

"I think that, you know, eventually, the Democratic Party is going to realize that socialism doesn't work. The far left is doesn't work," he added.