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Dec 19, 2025

The Manifesto They Didn’t Want You to Hear: Why did Senator John Kennedy refuse to read Zohran Mamdani’s explosive ‘trust-fund manifesto’ live on Fox News? The silence speaks volumes. What p

Users shared the text of a fabricated story about the Louisiana senator and New York mayor-elect appearing together on Fox’s “Hannity” TV show.

U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., read aloud a “trust-fund manifesto” for New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on the Fox News TV show “Hannity.”

A rumor that circulated online in November 2025 claimed U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appeared with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on the Fox News TV show “Hannity.” According to the rumor, Kennedy read aloud — to Mamdani’s face — a supposed “trust-fund manifesto” detailing Mamdani’s alleged life of riches.

 

On Nov. 10, a Facebook user named Kienen-Patricia-Natasja shared (archived) the claim with a collage of photos of Kennedy, Mamdani and conservative commentator Sean Hannity. The post was headlined “KENNEDY READS ZOHRAN KWAME MAMDANI’S ENTIRE TRUST-FUND MANIFESTO ON FOX PRIMETIME – THEN SAYS ‘GO CASH DADDY’S CHECK FIRST, JUNIOR.'”

The post began as follows:

Sean Hannity thought he was just tossing Kennedy a softball about “defund the police.”

Zohran Mamdani jumped in from split-screen, sneering: “Senator Kennedy is a fossil who needs to do his homework on abolition. Maybe start by paying reparations with his oil money.”

Kennedy didn’t speak for four full seconds. He just reached under the desk, pulled out a gold-embossed folder labeled “ZOH-RENT,” and started reading like he was calling hogs:

“Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Born: $28 million trust fund, Upper West Side

High school: Dalton, $61k/year

College: Bowdoin, full ride named after a slave trader

Rent: $0 – mommy pays the $14k/month Tribeca loft

Security: two off-duty NYPD (the same police he wants abolished) outside his door 24/7

Carbon footprint: 47 private jets in 2024 while lecturing subway riders about climate

 

Latest bill: ban gas stoves – introduced from his Wolf range kitchen

Quote, last week: ‘No one should own a second home’ – filmed inside his third Hamptons property”

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