'This is how your Indian wife eats': Congressman Brandon Gill calls Zohran Mamdani uncivilized, gets schooled

GOP leader, Congressman Brandon Gill waded into a controversy that got his family dragged into it, after he commented on the viral video of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani eating rice with his hand. "Civilized people in America don't eat like this. If you refuse to adopt Western customs, go back to the Third World," Brandon Gill commented.

After Andrew Cuomo conceded the NYC Democratic primary, Zohram Mamdani emerged as the winner, inching closer to become the first Asian, Muslim mayor of NYC if he wins the general election in November. His surprising victory made him a target of all sorts of attacks, with a Republican club calling for his deportation, President Donald Trump threatening to cut funds to NYC if he does not toe the line after becoming the mayor etc.

The latest attack is more on the cultural line as several Americans expressed how nauseating they felt seeing Mamdani eating with his hand, opening a wide debate on random cultural, racial attacks. But Brandon Gill faced the heat as he was reminded that he married an Indian, Daniell D'Souza, daughter of Conservative political commentator Dinesh D'Souza who was born in Mumbai.

Civilized people in America don’t eat like this.

If you refuse to adopt Western customs, go back to the Third World. https://t.co/TYQkcr0nFE

— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) June 30, 2025

"This is how your INDIAN WIFE eats, u dumb btch," one wrote. "Doesn’t your dad-in-law eat like this?!" another wrote.

MAGA activist Laura Loomer criticized Mamdani's eating video in the harshest language as she wrote: "Honestly, being an Islamist and a Communist was enough for me to not want
@ZohranKMamdani in office. He is from Africa. And you can tell in the way he eats. Disgusting. My dogs are cleaner and more civilized when they eat than little Muhammad."

".@ZohranKMamdani eats his food and licks his fingers with his right hand. We already know what he does with the left hand as a “third worlder”. You don’t want to shake either hand," Loomer added calling Mamdani a rich, nepo baby who has picked up a fight against billionaires while staying in her mother Mira Nair's $2 million condo in Chelsea, Manhattan.