Zohran Mamdani cannot legally run for U.S. president under the current Constitution. Key points:

• The U.S. Constitution requires the president to be a natural-born citizen. Zohran Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1991 and later naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2018, so he does not meet the natural-born requirement [web results indicate this interpretation and reference Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution].

• Even though naturalized citizens can be U.S. senators or representatives, the presidency has the explicit natural-born constraint, which cannot be satisfied by naturalization after birth.

• There have been discussions about constitutional amendments to change this, but such amendments have not passed and are historically unlikely to succeed in the near term.

If you’d like, I can summarize the main legal arguments and cite the specific constitutional text and any notable legal analyses from reliable outlets.