Recently released federal felon, former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), addressed a hysterical social message (posted Tuesday night) to Curtis Sliwa, the 71-year-old Republican radio talk show host who lost yesterday’s New York City mayoral election.

“F**k you @CurtisSliwa I HATE YOU, your dumb wife, that stupid Beret of yours and all your f**king cats!” wrote Santos, who extensively lied about his personal biography to get elected to Congress in 2023.

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Sliwa, the Republican candidate in the race, only won 7.1% of all votes. It’s unclear why Santos hates Sliwa’s wife Nancy Regula, the couple’s cats, or the trademark red beret that Sliwa wears to denote his 1979 founding of the Guardian Angels, a non-profit volunteer organization that used unarmed patrols to reduce crime.

When asked about Santos’ comment, Sliwa told Mother Jones that he considered Santos as “the most corrupt of all of our recent electeds—and that’s saying a lot.”

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Fuck you @CurtisSliwa I HATE YOU, your dumb wife, that stupid Beret of yours and all your fucking cats!

— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) November 5, 2025

Numerous Republicans encouraged Sliwa to drop out to help beat the victor, 34-year-old Socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani. Sliwa told Mother Jones that “childhood friends dispatched by the Cuomo campaign” offered him up to $10 million to drop out of the race.

President Donald Trump endorsed Sliwa’s Independent opponent, Cuomo. Even Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, told Republicans that voting for Sliwa was “just throwing your vote away.”

But even if Sliwa had dropped out and all 146,137 of his votes had gone to Cuomo, the hypothetically combined total of 1,001,132 votes for Cuomo still wouldn’t have been enough to beat Mamdani’s 1,036,051 vote total.

Mamdani promised to make LGBTQ+ rights and protections for transgender people significant parts of his mayoral tenure.

In contrast, Santos’s fellow House members expelled him from Congress less than a year after he was sworn in. During his brief time there, Santos cosponsored a bill to roll back LGBTQ+ civil rights and one to ban LGBTQ+ books from schools. He also made public statements against transgender people and the so-called “radical rainbow mafia.” Additionally, he said that LGBTQ+ families “create troubled individuals.”

After being kicked out of Congress, Santos pleaded guilty to financial fraud charges and federal authorities tossed him in prison. Trump commuted his sentence after Santos served 84 days in a white-collar prison.

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