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@HypnoticTree105 @gothburz Hold on. The “rich” aren’t taking money from the “poor”. Your elected officials are stealing money from everyone regardless of economic fortune.

@gothburz I don't care if you're rich. I care that everyone gets enough. If there were no homeless or hungry who gives a fuck if you have a private jet and 8 houses. The problem is that millions live without to give a handful obscene excess.

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said. I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her. Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it. "Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record. I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at. My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building. Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment. I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate. I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic. When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change. I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that. My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say. They want me to apologize. I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.

@BernieSanders What about wasteful spending?

Google founder Sergey Brin's wealth has DOUBLED to $311 billion since Trump's election. Now he’s spending $57M to oppose a 5% billionaires' wealth tax in California. He’d rather millions lose healthcare than pay his fair share in taxes. This kind of arrogance is unacceptable.

@manly_mentor She would get everything and the some. 💯

Those who says : I don’t submit to no man, listen to this ‼️

@SecRubio @ScottJenningsKY #Rubio2028 💯🇺🇸

@ericadamsfornyc Respectfully, stay out of it. Let NYC suffer for the election of a self-described socialist. When NY crumbles, like the 70s, it can be reborn a new.

*Update* I communicated with Ken earlier, and I expressed my dismay over the Mayor targeting his family outside their private residence. I also asked him to reconsider his decision to withdraw from New York City. The goal now must be to stop the narrative that New Yorkers who worked hard to achieve the American Dream are somehow the enemy. Coming from a modest upbringing, working hard, and achieving the American Dream should never make someone a villain in America. Yet that is exactly the message too many are sending today. It is especially troubling coming from politicians who grew up with every advantage imaginable, yet lecture working people and self-made business leaders about struggle and fairness. New York has always been a city where people from humble beginnings could build something for themselves, create jobs, and give their children a better life. @NYCMayor must stop dividing our city by demonizing success and those who invested in our communities and helped keep New York strong. The people who earned the opportunity to live on Park Avenue want the same things as the people living on Park Place in Brooklyn: safe streets, opportunity, and a clean city where they can raise their families with dignity and hope. My message to Ken and to other business leaders in New York City is this: Stand your ground. Do not let irresponsible rhetoric drive you out of this city. Our futures are connected, and New York only succeeds when we stop dividing people and remember we are all headed toward the same destination: a successful city.

@BreitbartNews @DataRepublican @FBIDirectorKash @POTUS @SecRubio she represents the residents of Washington, NOT foreign countries. Take her to court and enforce the law 🇺🇸🦅

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) announces she has been working with foreign countries to supply oil to Cuba, in defiance of President Trump. She says Trump's economic sanctions against the Communist regime are equivalent to illegally bombing the nation's infrastructure.

@its_The_Dr Keep voting democrat

OMG. It went from 16 percent death tax to 50 percent. In NYC.

@News12BK This is a general thought within the NYPD

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: A spokesperson for the NYPD confirmed the transfer of a Brooklyn police captain after a video of him criticizing Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Democrats went viral. #News12BK #Mamdani #NYPD

@AnihSammy Great flick!

Everybody need a soul like Mr Tony Vallelonga ❤️

@Mericamemed 😂😂😂😂😂 that’s how racisms ends 😂😂😂😂

I dont know what's worse 😂 eating sushi with a fork, or tacos with chopsticks

@ScooterCasterNY @yyeeaahhhboiii2 @FreedomNTV Pretty Balsy move by th me synagogue. These sales could be done remotely

NOW: Confrontations outside East Park Synagogue during "Land Sale" protest in Manhattan NYC Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 | Licensing @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv

@EverIntrigued @NYCMayor This one is not his doing. Congestion pricing was signed into law by Cuomo, and defended by Hochel.

@NYCMayor They will once you resign.

New York, we can breathe a little easier today.

@SouthBronxUnite It’s logical that congestion pricing, along with other limitations to car movements, increase traffic on highways, leading to more idled engines for longer periods of time. GREAT WORK! looking forward to seeing those results published!

📢 Tomorrow, we’re hosting a press conference outside our office to share our findings on air pollution in the South Bronx — and what congestion pricing is actually doing to our air. In partnership with Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, we analyzed a full year of air quality data from 19 community-managed monitors — before and after congestion pricing launched in January 2025. What we found is troubling: monitors near major expressways showed significant increases in fine particulate matter — the tiny particles linked to asthma and other illnesses. We’re bringing this data to the table to start an evidence-based conversation — and to call on the MTA to work with us on real solutions. 📆 Tuesday, May 5 🕑10am-12pm 📍Location SE Corner of Lincoln Ave & Bruckner Blvd

@GlobalIJournal Grow a pair

🇺🇸 An American young man: I am now in Japan. And when I say that I am American, people look at me with contempt and disgust. And wherever I go in the world and say that I am from America, people look at me with hatred. We are now in a state of humiliation. This is disgusting and shameful, simply.

@ThoNg676733 A father’s the only man that wants you to be better than him

The moment he saw his son, even the usually taciturn father couldn't hide his emotions.🥹💖

@DHSgov @nasescobar316 @ICEgov That’s what PD is suppose to do, regardless of “sanctuary” status. Assist in the apprehension of a wanted criminal, regardless of the jurisdiction.

Last night, @ICEgov conducted a targeted enforcement operation in Brooklyn that resulted in the arrest of Chidozie Wilson Okeke, a criminal illegal alien from Nigeria with previous arrests for ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL DRUG POSSESSION. During his arrest, Okeke refused to comply with officers’ lawful commands to exit the vehicle and weaponized his vehicle to attempt to hit ICE officers. Okeke became physically combative attempting to punch and elbow ICE officers. Our officers followed their training and used the minimum amount of force necessary to make the arrest.    After his arrest, Okeke requested medical assistance, so ICE officers escorted him to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center for a medical evaluation. Okeke remained non-compliant during the medical evaluation throwing himself to the floor and screaming. The medical staff cleared him.   During the medical evaluation, a significant crowd of anti-ICE agitators gathered at the hospital and became violent. The protestors damaged several ICE vehicles and assaulted ICE officers, resulting in minor injuries to the officers. Assaulting law enforcement is a felony and crime   Officers from the New York Police Department responded to the scene and arrested several rioters.

@NYCMayor @CMChiOsse More administrative bloat. As if there isn’t an agency that could be given the resposisibility, such as the DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE!!!!

For far too long, City government has stood idly by while New York homeowners fall victim to criminal deed theft schemes.   Those days are over. We're creating the City's first Office of Deed Theft Prevention. If you think you or someone you know may be a victim of deed theft, visit nyc.gov/deedfraud for support now.

@ImMeme0 I know who I’m voting for in the next gobernutorial elections.

BREAKING: Two women stabbed to death by illegal immigrant in New York. Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County Executive and a candidate for governor of New York, SLAMMS open-border policies after two woman were killed by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador on Long Island this week. The suspect, Rony Alvarenga-Rivera, came to the U.S. illegally as an unaccompanied minor at age 12 and was released. In 2022, he was granted permission to remain in the country legally by the Biden administration. Both victims were women who died from multiple stab wounds to the neck and torso. The victims and the suspect were living in the same house, renting rooms, and one of the victims worked with him at Wendy’s. Eddy Raquel Hernandez Castillo, 32, was killed at home, and Ana Maria del Aguila-Cordova, 42, a mother of two, including a one-year-old, was killed outside the restaurant while taking out the trash. Rivera is facing murder charges.

@DemzDeliver One free bus route per borough. 😂😂😂😂😂 there are close to 300 bus routes in total throughout the 5 boroughs. 5 free routes is assinine.

🚨 HUGE: Free NYC buses have been added to the 2026-2027 state budget plan.

@king_pearxe Another example of women not being satisfied

What are your thoughts on breast reduction?