NYC Mayor Eric Adams Throws Reporter Out of Presser During Heated Clash: ‘He Is Not Allowed Back Into This Room!’

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams banned a reporter from attending press conferences during a heated exchange at a Tuesday presser.

On Tuesday, Adams held his weekly press conference. While fielding questions, the mayor took exception to comments from New York Daily News reporter Chris Sommerfeldt. During their back-and-forth, Adams explicitly barred Sommerfeldt from coming back to future pressers:

ADAMS: You’re calling out a lot, Chris. Stop calling out. You must’ve done that in school. You must’ve done that in school. Stop calling out.

SOMMERFELDT: I thought you spoke to everyone!

ADAMS: If he does that again, he’s not to come into our conferences. You’re not gonna be disruptive in our conferences. You’re gonna stop at the gate. You do that again, you’re gonna stop at the gate. You’re not gonna come into this conference — my “off-topic” — and be disrespectful, and call out, and think you’re gonna do what you want. You won’t come through that gate if you do that again. Go ahead, go ahead.

SOMMERFELDT: Do you want to take a question from me so that we can avoid all this?

ADAMS: He did it again. Make sure security knows he is not allowed back into this room.

According to New York Post bureau chief Craig McCarthy, that exchange came moments after Adams said he’d speak with anyone to defend his controversial appearance on a livestream with popular streamer Sneako and pro-Trump rapper Amber Rose. Sommerfeldt, McCarthy noted, hadn’t been called on at a presser in “months.”

Following Tuesday’s incident, the Daily News Union confirmed in a statement that Adams had not called on Sommerfeldt in over three months.

“We demand you revoke this ban immediately,” the union added.

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