Conservative Catches Cnn Host Abby Phillip In A Glaring Hypocrisy As She Defends Communist Nyc Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Absurd Demand On Air Conditioning (video)

Notorious CNN host Abby Phillip’s efforts to defend communist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s demand for air conditioning went sideways when one of her guests caught her in a huge hypocrisy.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Mamdani on Wednesday requested that New Yorkers set their thermostats to 78 degrees. He claimed this was to alleviate stress on the energy grid.

Temperatures are soaring into the triple digits in the Midwest and East Coast this week and into the July 4th holiday weekend.

“I am asking every New Yorker to make a heat plan before the worst of this weather arrives,” said Mamdani.

“The best protection against extreme heat is air conditioning, he added. If you don’t have it at home, know now where you’ll go to stay cool. Check in on your neighbors, especially seniors, and if you see someone outside who appears to be in distress, call 311 so we can get help to them.

“This administration is using every tool we have to keep New Yorkers safe, but the strongest city is one where neighbors look out for one another. And to every business owner, please set your thermostats to 78 degrees to alleviate the stress on our grid.”

Of course, we all know the Gracie Mansion (where Mamdani lives) will be fully air-conditioned. According to Marxists like him, the rules should apply only to the masses.

Phillip, though, saw Mamdani’s demands as reasonable. During her show last night, she repeatedly cited then-South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s similar requests from a 2015 heat wave in the Palmetto State as a reason to let New Yorkers suffer.

Conservative guest Ben Ferguson then challenged Phillip by asking whether she raised the temperature in her home in solidarity with Mamdani. This caused the panel to go off the rails.

After the shouting died down, Ferguson dropped a bombshell: the CNN studio they were debating in was nowhere near 78 degrees.

So while Phillip was perfectly comfortable asking others to sacrifice, she did not want to sacrifice her own comfort in any way.

WATCH:

LMFAO! CNN just got EXPOSED refusing to raise the thermostat to 78 degrees despite host Abby Phillip supporting Zohran Mamdani’s demands

BEN FERGUSON: “By the way, just to be clear, it’s NOT 78 degrees in here right now! No one’s gonna buy this, it’s absurd!”

PHILLIP: “This… pic.twitter.com/a5egVqKWym

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 3, 2026

PHILLIP: Ben, I don’t understand this.

FERGUSON: Do you support it?

PHILLIP: Ask Nikki Haley. Ask the State of Texas.

FERGUSON: When you saw that (Mamdani’s comment), were you like ‘h*ll yeah let me knock that number up to 78?’

(crosstalk)

FERGUSON: By the way, just to be clear, it’s not 78 degrees in here right now! No one’s gonna buy this, it’s absurd!

PHILLIP: But Ben, this is a weird hill to die on….You can let this one go.

FERGUSON: Or we can turn it up to 78 right now in solidarity, we stand with Mamdani!

PHILLIP: You don’t have to jump off the partisan cliff.

FERGUSON: It’s not 78 in here!

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