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Parents began planning to take their kids out of NYC schools minutes after 
Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win.

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Parents began planning to take their kids out of NYC schools minutes after 
Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win
By Rikki Schlott
Published Nov. 5,2025,3:37 p.m. ET

Zohran Mamdani's victory has New Yorkers running for the hills - or at least 
private schools outside the city.

Since the results of Tuesday's election came in, school placement consultant 
Christopher Rim told The Post he's had no less than 23 clients reach out to 
him. They're looking to relocate - and they want his help getting their kids 
into elite private high schools and middle schools in other states.

"Within the first 30 minutes of AP announcing Mamdani's victory, I got three 
messages from families looking to move," said Rim, founder and CEO of Command 
Education.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaking 5
Zohran Mamdani pulled off a decisive victory in the 2025 mayoral race. 
MediaPunch/Shutterstock

Others sought his assistance months ago.

"Over the summer, I started hearing families say, 'I don't know what we are 
going to do if this guy wins,'" he said.
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Feeling that a Mamdani victory was inevitable, six of his clients moved to 
Connecticut - Greenwich, Darien and Riverside - ahead of the school year.

"They were like, 'He's going to win, and there's no reason ,'" Rim said.

The parents who have reached out to him have kids enrolled at top-notch New 
York City schools, including Trinity, Riverdale, Horace Mann, Ramaz and 
Avenues. Their children range from third grade through high school. 
The Trinity School in New York City with snow on the ground. 5
Families enrolled at the top-tier Trinity School on the Upper West Side have 
contacted school placement consultant Christopher Rim to transfer. Bloomberg 
via Getty Images

Many, he reports, are Jewish and are concerned about rising antisemitism in 
the city and Mamdani's views on Israel.
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"They're saying they're worried about safety in their everyday life," Rim 
said. "I don't even think it's a financial thing. I don't think it's the taxes 
or how much more money they would have to pay to live here."

Meanwhile, Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Hampton Synagogue has announced plans to 
start the first Jewish day school in the Hamptons. 

Rabbi Marc Schneier announced plans to start a Jewish day school in the 
Hamptons on Tuesday. The Hampton Synagogue

"This is in anticipation of the thousands of Jewish Families that will flock 
to the Hamptons and greater Suffolk County to escape the antisemitic climate 
of Mamdani's New York," the rabbi wrote in a Tuesday night Facebook post.

A poll conducted by J.L. Partners right before the election found that 9% of 
New Yorkers would 'definitely" leave upon a Mamdani victory, and another 25% 
were considering it.

Rim's clients have been primarily interested in schools in Florida, including 
American Heritage in Plantation, Lehrman Day School in Miami Beach, Pine Crest 
in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, Ransom Everglades in Miami and Miami 
Country Day School.
Pine Crest School campus 5
Pine Crest, a private K-12 school with campuses in Fort Lauderdale and Boca 
Raton, is in demand with Rim's clients. Pine Crest School

Saddle River Day School and Dwight Englewood in New Jersey and Greenwich Day 
School in Connecticut have also been popular placement requests. But parents 
are keeping an open mind just to get out of the Big Apple. 

"They're telling me, 'We'd like to go to these schools, but if we don't get 
into them, let us know what other schools we can get into,'" Rim said.

The expert consultant believes that families are going to have a real uphill 
battle getting into such selective private schools at the last minute.

"Even if you know someone at the school, you need to have a very strong 
application, you have to get all the recommendation letters together," he 
said. "Students have not necessarily been preparing for all of this."

Even though these families are coming from some of the top New York City 
schools, he says they're up for a real challenge.
Chris Rim headshot 5
Admissions consultant Christopher Rim says more than 20 families are asking 
him for help leaving New York City.

"It hasn't been hard to get into some of these schools," he said, referring to 
NYC's Trinity and Brearley. "It is far, far, far more difficult to get into 
these Florida schools."

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On Wednesday morning, he also spoke with a family who decided to take NYU and 
Columbia off their college application list "because they don't want their kid 
to live in New York City" with Mamdani as mayor.

"These are families who have been thinking of leaving, been wanting to 
leave," Rim said. "This is just the final thing that pushed them to New 
Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, or even further."

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has 
been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the 
point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the 
Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or 
stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The 
president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were 
all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's 
vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of 
hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from 
reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk 
opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump 
announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would 
suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. 
There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be 
received positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 
2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-
night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first 
coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. 
The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in 
otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - 
the very existence of George W. Bush."