Trump Offers Eric Adams a Job to Get Him to Drop Out of NYC Mayor’s Race
JANUARY 1st 2022: Eric Adams takes office as the 110th Mayor of New York City. – File Photo by: zz/NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx 2021 7/14/21 Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at a gun violence prevention community meeting and press conference on July 14, 2021 at the Lenox Road Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York City. (NYC)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has a choice to make: continue to fight for a second term as NYC mayor, or take a position within President Donald Trump’s administration. That is the decision facing Adams on Wednesday, after Politico reported he has been offered a position at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
“The mayor, who has a friendly working and political relationship with Trump, met with the president’s team during his visit Monday to Florida,” the outlet reported, based on a source familiar with the meeting.
Trump’s advisors, according to several sources who spoke to The New York Times, were also considering giving Republican Curtis Sliwa a position as part of its plan to “damage the chances” that frontrunner Zohran Mamdani (D) wins the mayoral race.
Adams on Wednesday declined to answer whether he plans on ditching his reelection bid, but he did confirm that he met with several Trump advisors earlier in the week.
“I met with some of his team,” Adams told Fox 5 in NYC. “I met with several elected officials, and again, if there’s any changes in this race, I will announce that.”
While the Republican-Democrat combo of Trump and Adams may seem like an odd pairing at first glance, the president has had some nice things to say about the mayor in the past. Last year, at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, the president said Adams has been “really great” to him.
“He said that ‘They shouldn’t be calling Trump a dictator. Because it’s not true.’ That’s nice. That was nice. Very nice,” Trump said. “So we want to thank Mayor Adams.”
President Trump also said, in September 2024, that he had predicted Adams would be indicted on fraud charges because he had dared to side with Trump on illegal immigration. Adams, for his part, has been complimentary towards the president as well, and said earlier this year that he had a “productive” conversation with Trump in the days leading up to his inauguration. Trump’s DOJ later moved to drop the corruption charges against Adams, which led to several high-profile resignations and accusations that Adams and the Trump DOJ engaged in a “quid pro quo” — including from the judge who dismissed the charges.
As for whether the plan to boost Cuomo’s odds would actually work, one new survey of likely voters found the ex-Governor would beat Mamdani 52% to 41% in a head-to-head matchup. Mamdani is currently lapping the competition with 42% support among the five-person field, which also includes independent candidate Tricia Walden.
