“I think we’re gonna have a lot of fun with him,” Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn Tuesday morning, “because he has to go right through this building to get his money. Don’t worry, he’s not gonna run away with anything.”

The president blasted the presumptive Democratic nominee to take over Gracie Mansion as a “pure, true Communist.”

“Frankly, I’ve heard he’s a total nut job. I think the people of New York are crazy. If they go this route, I think they’re crazy. We will have a Communist in the for the first time, really a pure, true Communist,” the Queens-born president said.

Trump’s comments came ahead of a trip to Florida to visit the newly opened “Alligator Alcatraz,” a facility built to house detained migrants.

Mamdani stunned many mainstream political observers by walloping a field that included former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in last week’s primary.

“I think he’s terrible. He’s a Communist. The last thing we need is a Communist. I said there will never be socialism in the United States. Now we have a Communist,” Trump added. “… He wants to operate the grocery stores, the department stores.”

Mamdani, 33, has denied being a Communist but has billed himself as a proud socialist. The New York assemblyman raised eyebrows during his campaign for his proposal to set up city-run grocery stores across the Big Apple, which he argued would help lower prices for consumers.

Mamdani has also pushed for massive tax increases on the wealthy, engaged in anti-police rhetoric and railed against Israel, refusing to denounce the phrase “Globalize the intifada,” which is widely interpreted as a rallying cry to exterminate the Jews.

Over the weekend, he also doubled down on his plans to ramp up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” — while declaring that billionaires shouldn’t exist.

A recently resurfaced video of Mamdani at a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference showed him being adamant about “seizing the means of production,” sending a chill down the spines of people who lived through Communist regimes.

“It is critical to the way that we organize, the way that we set up our, you know, set up our work and our priorities that we do not leave any one issue for the other,” he added in the video.

Former Brooklyn City Councilman Ari Kagan, born in Communist Belarus, decried Mamdani’s proposals.

“After [the] Red October Socialist Revolution in 1917, Bolsheviks seized means of production, jailed or killed business owners, eliminated freedoms & took over private farms & food stores,” Kagan said on X.

Former Brooklyn City Councilman Ari Kagan, born in Communist Belarus, decried Mamdani’s proposals.

“I would never imagine NYC would consider this failed & dangerous government model,” he added. “I remember government-run stores in Minsk. There were long lines.”

Many prominent New York Democrats have refrained from endorsing Mamdani — including Gov. Kathy Hochul, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Others, such Long Island Reps. Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen, have condemned his far-left proposals.

The Post reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for comment.

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