Eric Adams Ripped For ‘Worst Answer’ a Politician has ‘Ever Given’ For Odd Comment About 9/11 and New York City

Political consultant and MSNBC contributor Tim Miller ripped New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) for giving the “worst answer” ever to a seemingly simple question.

PIX11’s Dan Mannarino in New York sat down with Adams this week and lobbed a “softball” question at the mayor as they finished up the interview.

“Mr. Mayor, we’ve come to the end of what was a very eventful 2023. So, when you look at the totality of the year, if you had to describe it — and it’s tough to do — in one word, what would that word be? And tell me why?”

Adams answered, “Uh, New York. This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center, to a person who’s celebrating a new business being open. This is a very, very complicated city. And that’s why it’s the greatest city on the globe.”

Miller and many, many others pounced on Adams’s odd reply, which appeared to suggest the terror attacks were part of what made New York “the greatest city” on earth.

“Eric Adams gives the worst answer any politician has ever given to a softball question,” Miller tweeted.

Others simply tweeted, “Wow.”

Another tweeted, “That wasn’t even a softball question. That was a T-Ball question,” with a gif of a kid whiffing the ball.

PIX11 attended a City Hall press conference Tuesday, where Adams was asked about the awkward answer.

“The sentence police that sit in front of the TV and say, ‘Let’s wait to see Eric make one sentence that we can turn into a front page,’” he said.

“Using the analogy of the complexity of what can happen in the city from planes landing on our Hudson River to all the other things — that was my comment,” Adams said. “People knew what I was saying.”

Adams has had a rough couple of months: He has been trying to handle an influx of migrants. some of whom had been bused to New York City by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), he had his phones seized by the FBI in a federal corruption investigation, and he was accused of sexual assault by a former colleague. The mayor strongly denied that claim through a spokesperson.

Below are some additional reactions to Adams’s comments, including from Stephen Colbert on the Late Show.

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