New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reposted Vance’s post with a nine-second video from social media personality Ollyybee, where he wears a safety vest and feigns helping stop a subway train before ushering riders aboard. Mamdani’s use of the video is being interpreted as the mayor mocking the vice president for taking credit for successes the Trump administration had nothing to do with.
A community note on Vance’s post agrees, noting that “Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific.” As of this writing, Mamdani’s post has 1.6 million likes to the Vance post’s 9,200 — while a closer look at the vice president’s claims tells a different story.
Safer communities
Vance claimed the Trump administration brought record low crime, as well as a drop in gun and murder rates to both New York City and the entire state, as well as illegal immigration enforcement. But official reports of New York’s drop in murders, shootings and related victims credit the NYPD’s “precision policing strategy.”
Vance’s boast about a 48% drop in murders in the state is actually credited to the state-funded Gun Involved Violence Elimination initiative. And though a federal partnership helped remove thousands of guns from New York City streets, it began in 2021 under President Biden.
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns have had an impact on New York, though some experts say they could be doing more harm than good.
Working families tax cuts
Vance says the Trump administration protected 337,000 New York jobs, preserved $32 billion in wages, delivered a $3,843 average tax refund and quadrupled the SALT deduction cap.
In reality, the data for the jobs and wages numbers surfaced in January 2025, the same month Trump was sworn in for his second term, in a report commissioned by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) that showed the “estimated economic activity disrupted by the expiration of tax policies that encourage manufacturing in the United States, by state.”
After the Trump administration passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, NAM published a new report that appears to repeat those same earlier estimates as “wins across America,” which the White House also promoted.
