NYC Mayor Eric Adams Attending Inauguration After Last-Minute Trump Invite
New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday after reportedly receiving a last-minute invitation from the Trump team.
Adams was initially set to attend two events in New York City in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but his team announced the schedule change early Monday morning, ending weeks of speculation about whether Adams would attend the inauguration.
“In the early hours of Monday morning, the Trump administration reached out inviting Mayor Adams to attend the inauguration at the incoming administration’s request. Mayor Adams accepted on behalf of New York City,” Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the mayor, posted on X Monday morning.
“As the mayor has repeatedly said, America has chosen a new national leader and we must work together to build a safer, stronger, and more affordable in New York City,” Levy added.
Adams’ attendance comes just three days after the mayor traveled to Florida to meet with Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach.
The embattled mayor is facing federal corruption charges and is set to go to trial in April. He has pled not guilty in a five-count indictment that accuses him of accepting luxury travel gifts for years in exchange for several things, including getting the fire department to approve a new Turkish consulate in Manhattan despite safety concerns.
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Trump said last month that he would consider pardoning Adams.
“I think that he was treated pretty unfairly,” Trump said, although he added that he does not “know the facts.”
However, the mayor said they did not discuss his legal troubles at their lunch.
Adams has suggested that the federal charges were brought down on him in retaliation for his harsh criticism of the Biden administration in the thick of New York’s migrant crisis, which he said would “destroy” the city.
“The president and the White House have failed this city,” Adams said in 2023 as tens of thousands of illegal migrants poured into New York City, most relying on the city to house and feed them.
Adams is not the only prominent Democrat to take a meeting with Trump in recent weeks.
Another was Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who met with Trump in Florida after his election victory. Trump later called him “a commonsense person.”
Trump will be sworn in around noon on Monday. He is expected to sign a flurry of executive orders afterward on issues from immigration to gender ideology as his first official moves as president.