Mayor Zohran Mamdani decried capitalism and the US’ involvement in foreign wars during an address marking America’s 250th anniversary Friday — while sitting at George Washington’s desk.

The 15-minute speech — which Mamdani gave while flanked by newly naturalized US citizens — balanced critiques with a celebration of a “grand experiment in self-governance.”

The democratic socialist mayor elevated the plight and contributions by downtrodden Americans — slaves, Continental Army soldiers, immigrants of all types — with the alleged smallness of the “powerful.”

“We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions,” he intoned. “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.”

Mamdani then took aim at his texting buddy President Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown and fellow billionaires.

“We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans,” he said. “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.”

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