Seattle’s wokest mayor EVER pledges to ‘stand with Somali childcare suppliers’ as she takes a shot at Trump throughout inauguration

Seattle’s new socialist mayor pledged to ‘stand with Somali health childcare providers’ as she took a shot at Donald Trump during her inauguration. 

Katie Wilson, 43, has drawn scrutiny for openly taking money from her parents to fund her life, and for her so-called ‘communist’ plans to remake the Emerald City.

In her first major speech in office, she acknowledged Trump’s criticism of her campaign. 

‘I’ve been noticed by the president of the United States, who called me a “very, very liberal/communist mayor.” It’s nice to feel seen,’ she said to laughs from the crowd.

Wilson has also taken shots at Trump and the Republican Party for going after the ongoing daycare fraud scandal in Minnesota.

On her first day in office, she tweeted out a condemnation of those going after the Somali community.

‘I stand with the Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment, and condemn the surveillance campaign promoted by extremist influencers,’ she wrote. 

Notably, one of the speakers at her inauguration was Ifrah Abshir, a Somali migrant who was raised in Seattle and now attends to the University of Minnesota.

Abshir worked with Wilson on a program that allowed low-income students in the city to get free transit cards. 

She appeared to take a not-so subtle shot at Republicans over the scandal, which has seen dozens arrested over alleged fraud of government funds. 

‘I realized very quickly that this country uses the same playbook: pick a vulnerable group, describe them as a threat, flood the media with accusations, then use the panic to justify collective punishment,’ Abshir said.

‘So as a Somali, immigrant, Muslim-American, our community knows this script very well. We had surveillance of our mosque, travel bans, a certain president calling us garbage.’ 

Like Wilson, she accused conservatives of ‘harassing our neighbors and our children because they believe we are inherently untrustworthy.’ 

Wilson, during her own speech, made reference as New York City’s new socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani did to the socialist political slogan of ‘bread and roses’ in her speech.

‘I want to live in a city that honors what you’re doing when you’re not making money, because we need bread, but we need roses too,’ Wilson said.

Mamdani enlisted singer Lucy Dacus to sing the song ‘Bread and Roses’ at his own inauguration Thursday. 

Also like Mamdani, she made no plans to back down from her radical left-wing campaign proposals.

‘I’m kind of a rabble-rouser. I campaigned on affordability, on homelessness, on taxing the rich,’ she said. 

Wilson has previously said her vision for a cut-price community would mean ‘the city should be your living room, and the park should be your backyard’.

Speaking at an event to lay out her platform, Wilson also said she will raise the minimum wage, so ‘you don’t need a six-figure income to feel at home in Seattle’.

She added that families should follow her lead and raise their children in apartments, which drew criticism from those opposing her socialist views. In October, it was reported that Wilson lives in a $2,200 rent apartment in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. 

‘I want the option to raise a family in a multi-room house with a big ass backyard surrounded by a white picket fence. I’ll work hard for it and make the right moves to get it,’ responded conservative commentator Jonathan Choe on X. 

‘I want the American dream, not a Chinese communist apartment.’ 

Others also pointed to Seattle’s sky-high crime rates as reasons to reject having ‘the park as your backyard’, since the city records murder, robbery and assault rates all far higher than the national average.

According to crime statistics tracker Neighborhood Scout, Seattle residents have a shocking one in 129 chance of being a victim of a violent crime. 

The robbery rate is over triple the national average at 2.22 cases for every 1,000 residents, and there are an average of 444 crimes per square mile in the city. 

The city has also become known as a homelessness hotspot across the nation, and its unhoused population has surged by a staggering 88 percent in the past 10 years. 

Other critics also pointed to Wilson’s admission that she took money from her parents to help fund her life while she ran for office, an option that many of her constituents wouldn’t be able to enjoy.

In November, Wilson’s own father David told the Daily Mail that he has ‘forked over thousands’ to support his daughter, but hopes she’ll no longer need the cash when she starts earning a $250,000 City Hall salary. 

‘Now they can afford to live in… more than a one-bedroom apartment, and so they’re fine,’ David said of his daughter, who shares a two-year-old daughter with her unemployed husband. 

Wilson defended taking the money to Fox News during the campaign, and said that she believed admitting to it made her more ‘relatable’ to Seattle voters. 

‘Campaigning for office is stressful,’ she said. 

‘Seattle is one of the most expensive cities in the country, our childcare is off-the-charts expensive and, honestly, I think that a lot of people of my generation, and younger and older, found it very relatable that during this stressful campaign my parents chipped in to help pay for the cost of their granddaughter’s daycare.’ 

Wilson went on to defeat incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell in the election, and she has often been compared to incoming New York City socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani for her far-left policy platform.