Kudos to John Catsimatidis for his careful account of his last call with President Donald Trump, which seems to represent the thinking of Queens’ No. 1 son better than the many “anonymous” rumors floating the claim that Trump thinks ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the city’s best hope.
Rumors that you have to think are actually “wishcasting” from the Cuomo camp.
We fully believe the prez “is concerned about the New York City race,” just as Cats tells it, and “does not want a socialist mayor.”
But the WABC CEO isn’t the one claiming the White House offered Mayor Eric Adams an administration job to get him out of the race.
No, planting that story is far more likely to come from a rival candidate, perhaps the one who’s been saying for weeks that Trump would step in this way.
(And the one who to this day denies having a thing to do with those “Vote for Cuomo, not the homo” attacks on Ed Koch in the 1977 mayoral race.)
Of course, there’s no shortage of chutzpah in this race, even from the nominally Muslim candidate: Zohran Mamdani called an “emergency” press conference to condemn the White House “election interference” and “meddling.”
Election interference?
Meddling?
Pretty rich, coming on the heels of Mamdani’s collusion with nearly all his Democratic primary “rivals” and the Working Families Party in Operation “Don’t Rank Evil Andrew” to derail the ex-gov.
Plus, Mamdani repeatedly slammed Cuomo during the primary refusing various and sundry local debates — yet now himself has ruled out showing up for any “unofficial” debates in the general-election season.
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Who’s hiding now, Zoh?
Anyway, if Trump is brainstorming ways to save the city, he can surely get more imaginative.
We don’t see how he’ll get Curtis Sliwa to drop out: The Republican nominee says the only way he’s leaving the race is if he’s “hit by a Mack truck.”
But Cuomo might be open to some other job to revive his political career — how about ambassador to Italy? to the Vatican?
Heck, think about how to tempt Mamdani.
Offer to fulfill his most important lifelong dream: Make him ambassador to Palestine.
Hamas will love this guy!