New York Post
@nypost·2.4M subscribers·43.2K videos
Video Of Mamdani Speaking Mandarin Sparks AI Claims
Posted
August 17, 2026
Views
2,059
Likes
29
Comments
34
Engagement
3.06%
August 17, 2026
2,059
29
34
3.06%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
1:20Now PlayingMayor Zohran Mamdani’s team flatly denied that artificial intelligence was used in the pair of clips he released last week to promote the city’s giveaway of 2,000 free Broadway show tickets for high school students.
“And just to be clear this is NOT AI,” Mamdani’s press secretary and chief spokesperson Joe Calvello wrote on X Sunday in response to the video in which the mayor addresses the camera comfortably speaking Mandarin for 41 seconds while seated at his desk.
#zohranmamdani #ai #mandarin #nyc
Read more at
The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.
Check out our three new podcasts:
NYNext (week)
Pod Force One with MIranda Devine (weekly)
NY POSTcast (daily)
Get The Post’s latest headlines everyday with our Morning Report newsletter:
Catch the latest news at
Follow The New York Post on:
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
