As Errol Louis recently pointed out, Adams is barely holding onto to even the semblance of power in the city at this point:
The political vacuum at City Hall was in full view this week, with the Trump administration’s new mass-deportation campaign including a visit from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to personally supervise immigration raids and arrests in midtown and the Bronx. “Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets,” Noem boasted on social media, sharing a video of a man being led away in handcuffs.
The NYPD did not participate in the raid, and normally, it would be unthinkable to see that kind of high-profile federal action on city streets without involvement or comment from City Hall. But Adams has already made it clear that he will not be saying anything publicly that might displease Trump.
“I’ve said it before: I’m not going to be warring with the president. I’m going to be working with the president. And that’s my responsibility as the mayor,” Adams told reporters. “If I do disagree, I will communicate with him directly on them,” said Adams. “I don’t want to be part of what feeds the anxiety of going back and forth in this public discourse that we’re seeing. If [there are] things that he does that I disagree on, I will reach out to the president and communicate with him.”
Adams said this a day after he canceled multiple Martin Luther King Jr. Day appearances and instead raced to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration, where he watched Trump’s swearing-in from an overflow room in the Capitol and later had lunch with top Republicans.
Read the rest of Errol’s column here.
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