By BRUCE LOWITT
Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams was appointed Wednesday by President Donald Trump to the newly created post of Deputy Executive Assistant Vice President after Adams resigned his office following the resignations by four of his deputy mayors and the rest of his staff at both City Hall and his Gracie Mansion residence.
“Along with my co-vice presidents, Elon Musk and, um … uh … oh, yeah, Jerry … no, wait … uh … something-something Vance, Eric Adams will be a valuable addition to my administration,” Trump told James Rosen of Newsmax, the only reporter not banned from attending White House news conferences.
“Eric – this Black guy over here, not my idiot son – will oversee the presidential acquisition of whatever it is my family and I can get our hands on during my term in office, however long I decide it to be,” Trump said.
Adams said he thought he “was home free after (acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle) Sassoon and six other federal prosecutors quit when Trump’s lawyers tried to get the judge to throw out the case against me. After I asked Pam (Bondi, Trump’s attorney general) to review how I was running New York, I hear she told him I was the best guy to run his side businesses.”
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was polling as a top challenger to Adams before the mayor’s resignation, rejected calls to pursue the suddenly vacant office. “People have pretty much forgotten the nursing-home deaths and sexual-harassment claims I had to put up with,” he said, “and I don’t need the press dragging that shit up again.”
The appointment of Adams as DEAVP triggered a wave of disapproval by Republican senators who said they had been promised the job in exchange for their vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. But fearing Kash Patel as FBI director, they agreed to approve everyone Trump nominates for anything rather than spending the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders.
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