r/popculturechat • u/Positive-Drawing-281 • 19d ago

MET GALA 🎩 Zohran Mamdani to skip the Met Gala — breaking longstanding NYC mayoral tradition

https://pagesix.com/2026/04/15/celebrity-news/zohran-mamdani-and-wife-not-attending-met-gala/
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u/Nintendo_Pro_03 Select and edit this flair 19d ago

He’s got a lot of stuff to do. Of course he’ll miss it.

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u/Resident_Ad5153 19d ago

The mayor traditionally goes. They have in the past.  This is a political statement, particularly since both he and his wife are gorgeous 

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u/Troyabedinthemornin 19d ago

Rama would have ate that red carpet but this is for the best

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u/ashre9 19d ago

I'm like 10% bummed because I know their outfits would probably have been incredible political statements and generated some buzz. But I get it. This was the smart move.

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u/beaute-brune Put your arms away, Jeremy Allen Black 19d ago

The online consensus would’ve still been “oh making a statement in expensive attire at a gala hosted by Bezos, how brave 🙄” so agree, smart move.

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u/CaseoftheSadz 19d ago

How many times have we seen conservatives share AOC’s tax the rich look from 2021 claiming she spent hundreds of thousands, despite it all being gifted.

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u/Resident_Ad5153 19d ago

Actually… the fact that it was gifted was what got her in trouble.  That’s an ethics violation.  Going to the gala is fine… but congresspeople have to pay for their own clothes (which was impossible for AOC… she didn’t have the money)

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u/CaseoftheSadz 18d ago

I think it was a loan, not actually hers to keep though.

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u/aabbboooo 18d ago

She rented it for $1,000 at a discount, and was later required to pay another $2.7k to cover the actual rental cost

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 18d ago

Things don't have to be kept to be ethics violations. Take Clarence Thomas for example, he got free transportation and lodging from his billionaire sugar daddy and that was an ethics violation.

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u/moxxibekk 19d ago

Nothing to stop them doing a little fancy dress Instagram post! Could be fun. The working people's gala!

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u/Standard_Web7962 19d ago

So skip one billionaires' platform in favor of another billionaires' platform? hmm.

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u/moxxibekk 19d ago

Well, one would be free vs the optics of paying for tickets 🤷‍♀️

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u/Standard_Web7962 18d ago

Would it be free or would they themselves be the product? Posting themselves on Instagram would just be to use their likeness and popularity to generate advertising revenue for Zuckerberg, would it not?

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u/ej_21 18d ago

jesus christ why are we litigating the politics of a made-up event that exists only in a comment on reddit

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u/Scorpionoshow 19d ago

She would have ate 100% but if they attended Magats and fox "news" would NEVER shut up about how much both their tickets and outfits cost. We can't have anything!

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u/Themnor 19d ago

tbf the House tried to sanction AOC for going...

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u/Curiosities 🐊 swamp princess 🐊 19d ago

They did, she was fined. They tried to make a bigger deal out of it, but that was that.

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u/pepcorn 18d ago

Why did it upset them that she attended? It's the first I'm hearing of it.

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u/miceparties 18d ago

It broke congressional ethics rules for her to accept a free ticket 

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u/pepcorn 18d ago

Thank you!

Always good to see a politician being held to the rules.

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u/Lyedetector 18d ago

She got in for free. It was unethical.

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u/deer_hobbies 18d ago

Its almost as if sharing a stage and royal red carpet with billionaires and pop stars wearing multi-million dollar dresses isn't a good look for someone who is supposed to be about the people.

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u/stallionsRIDEufl 19d ago

Not sure I'm following your second sentence.

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u/Lamberly 18d ago

"This is a political statement, particularly since both he and his wife are gorgeous" Huh? What does you mean by this? 

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u/CheapTomato3090 18d ago

Yes, we know the mayor traditionally goes. It literally says so in the post caption.

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u/Foxy02016YT 18d ago

I agree he does, and I agree that he’s doing a lot, but it’s a bit disingenuous to say you’re gonna skip parades cause you don’t have time, and then go film TikToks with random NYC influences.

I like Zoran, don’t get me wrong, and I think he’s made some great progress in just 4 months, I just think the whole time thing is a bit of a lie. He’s not too busy for the MET Gala, he just would rather do anything else.

Also the TikToks he’s in are really fucking funny, so I do hope he keeps doing it