On Wednesday morning, 77 WABC morning host Sid Rosenberg issued an apology for recent social media posts he made attacking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Earlier this week, in a post on X, Rosenberg called Mamdani a “Radical Islam cockroach” and a “Jihadist America hating Mayor” while urging President Donald Trump to stop meeting with and speaking positively about the newly elected New York mayor.
Many took issue with Sid Rosenberg’s comments. The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called for Rosenberg’s show to be cancelled. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) labeled the comments as “hateful, racist, and disgusting” and said that it was “dehumanizing language.” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the comments “a disgusting display of bigotry and Islamophobia that should receive universal condemnation.”
While responding to a reporter’s question about Rosenberg’s statements, Mamdani said he wasn’t surprised.
“This language is both painfully familiar to me as a Muslim New Yorker, but also as someone who was born in east Africa,” Mamdani said. “It is difficult to hear.”
On Wednesday morning, Rosenberg issued an apology for his remarks.
 “To the mayor, and anyone else that I offended with my tweet on Saturday, I send out a heartfelt apology,” Rosenberg said in the statement.
The comments from Sid Rosenberg came after he returned to the X platform following a lengthy suspension for unspecified reasons. He subsequently deleted his post with the disparaging remarks to Mamdani.
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