PORTNOY STUNNED BY MAMDANI AND AOC LAUGHING DURING 9/11 CEREMONY On a day of mourning, as victims’ names were being read at Ground Zero, @stoolpresidente says seeing Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laughing was so jarring that he initially wondered whether the footage was A.I.-generated. He says their apparent lack of awareness in that moment was impossible to ignore: “This is something that people will remember.”