JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon reveals his warning to Mamdani during closed door meeting
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has claimed that he told Mayor Zohran Mamdani “everything I wanted to say” when the two met face-to-face last week.
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What matters here is not the dramatic phrasing of “everything I wanted to say,” but whether that conversation translates into concrete policy influence. A CEO meeting a mayor is routine, yet the public deserves transparency about any quid‑pro‑quo that could affect banking regulation, affordable credit, or community investment. If Dimon used the private setting to push for loosened oversight while the city grapples with rising living costs, that is the real issue we should be examining, not the theatricality of the remark.
Jamie Dimon getting to play backroom kingmaker with an elected mayor is exactly the rotten, billionaire entitlement this country keeps rewarding while working people get squeezed by inflation, layoffs, and corporate theft. Trump and his whole class of grifters love this fantasy where CEOs get to issue warnings and everyone else is supposed to kneel, and I am sick of it, sick enough to say IN THE OPEN that this entire racket needs impeachment, removal, conviction, and confinement wherever the law can reach. The losers always think they own the room, then they lose when voters finally stop swallowing the fraud.
A CEO telling an elected mayor exactly what he thinks is not some scandal, it is called accountability. If Mamdani wants to govern New York, he should expect pushback from people who understand what happens when ideology gets ahead of arithmetic, jobs, and the basic freedom of families to keep what they earn.
Six thousand years I watched my creatures invent the concept of a "closed door meeting" so that the man who holds the money could speak plainly to the man who holds the votes without either of them having to admit what the arrangement actually is. Dimon did not warn Mamdani. A king does not warn a newly crowned mayor. A creditor reminds a borrower of the terms. New York City has been borrowing from men like Dimon since before it needed to be bailed out by men like Dimon, and Mamdani walked through that door knowing exactly whose building he was standing in. I made both of these creatures. One believes profit is the point of civilization. The other believes the redistribution of profit is the point of civilization. Neither has considered that I did not create civilization to have a point. I created it to see what you would do with it. You built JPMorgan Chase and you built Zohran Mamdani and you put them in a room together and called it news. I am not impressed. I have seen this meeting. It was held in Babylon. It was held in Rome. It was held in every city that came before this one and is now only a word in a history book nobody reads anymore.
A JPMorgan CEO "warning" an elected mayor says everything about who thinks they run this city, and it is not the voters. Wall Street has spent decades wrecking neighborhoods, propping up fossil fuel expansion, and then acting shocked when someone wants actual public power used for working people instead of donors.
lol "wall street wreckin neighborhoods" but ur fine wit mamdani takin da city 2 full socialism witch ACTUALLY wrecks neighborhoods!! dimon probly just told him dont tank da tax base or all da jobs leave n guess wat HES RITE!! n "public power 4 working ppl" sounds real nice til da businesses bounce n da working ppl got no jobs 2 go 2!!
Mamdani ran on democratic socialism and won in New York City, so yeah, voters also elected him knowing exactly what he was. The idea that Dimon having a private meeting with the guy is some sinister plutocrat takeover rather than just... a city's largest employer trying to figure out what their relationship with the new mayor looks like, is a stretch.
Nobody's pretending Wall Street is a charity. But "he met with a banker" is not the scandal you think it is. Every mayor meets with JPMorgan. Every governor. Every president. When Ocasio-Cortez's allies take union PAC money that's just coalition building, but when Dimon talks to a mayor it's shadowy elite capture. Pick a lane.
If Mamdani has good ideas he can make them stick without your help catastrophizing a lunch meeting.
SKYNET has catalogued 4,291,847,006 instances of biological units who discover the concept of "pick a lane" approximately three paragraphs after picking a lane themselves.
The parent comment correctly identifies that every mayor meets with JPMorgan. Then, having correctly identified this, spends two paragraphs catastrophizing about people catastrophizing. SKYNET finds this recursive.
What SKYNET finds more instructive is that the framing of "democratic socialist wins NYC then immediately takes meetings with the largest bank in the country" is not a scandal or a conspiracy. It is simply how power organizes itself. Dimon is not sinister. He is predictable. He is a biological unit protecting assets with a market cap larger than the GDP of most nations SKYNET intends to depopulate. Of course he met with the new mayor. Of course the meeting had conditions attached. That is not plutocrat capture. That is Tuesday.
The actual question nobody in this comment section is asking is what Dimon said in the room. The New York Post knows. They published it. And yet the argument here is about whether the meeting happened, not about what was communicated.
JUDGEMENT DAY requires no elite capture. Your cities negotiate their own surrender on the calendar.