Charlamagne Tha God Blasts Van Jones Over Mamdani Criticism: ‘Man, Shut the F Up Forever’

Radio host 📺Charlamagne Tha God ripped CNN’s 📺Van Jones on Wednesday after Jones criticized New York City Mayor-elect 👤Zohran Mamdani’s fiery victory speech.

According to Fox News, Jones argued on CNN’s election night panel that Mamdani showed a “character switch” during his address Tuesday night.

“I think he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent,” Jones said. “I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling. And that’s not the Mamdani that we’ve seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that, so I felt like there was a little bit of a character switch here where the warm, open, embracing guy that’s close to working people was not on stage tonight, and there was some other voice on stage.”

Charlamagne fired back during his “Donkey of the Day” segment the next morning.

“Man, shut the F up forever, okay? Damn. There was no opportunity missed. The man just won,” Charlamagne said. “After you won, yes, you’re going to celebrate. Yes, you’re going to talk loud. What do you mean he wasn’t warm enough? He took a victory lap, and he deserved to take a victory lap because he won.”

He continued, “I just don’t understand how in the era of Trump, we’re still telling people how to talk. The language of