New York City Mayor Eric Adams was slammed and ridiculed over his bizarre remarks about 9/11, a day that will live in infamy which he seemed to portray as just another part of the uniqueness of life in the Big Apple.
During a weekend interview with Pix 11 News anchor Dan Mannarino, Hizzoner was asked about how he would sum up a tumultuous year at the helm of the rapidly deteriorating metropolis in a single word, and his peculiar answer only handed more fuel to his critics who already want to burn him at the stake.
“New York,” he said. “This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s open. This is a very, very complicated city, and that’s why it’s the greatest city on the globe.”
New York New York! pic.twitter.com/ehiRd2UGQu
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) December 18, 2023
Putting a positive spin on a tragic day when around 3,000 innocent people lost their lives may have not been how the embattled Democrat intended it to come out of of his mouth but once it did, it was inevitable that he would once again find himself on the receiving end of mockery and scorn as he often has during his troubled tenure at Gotham’s helm.
“I have told people that Eric Adams was the dumbest person in American politics and they didn’t believe me. Now maybe they’ll believe me,” wrote Commentary editor and New York Post columnist John Podhoretz.
I have told people that Eric Adams was the dumbest person in American politics and they didn’t believe me. Now maybe they’ll believe me. https://t.co/bqqcgdbcB1
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 18, 2023
“Didn’t think Eric Adams could top his comment that he would like to retire in the Golan Heights, but ‘come to NYC and experience 9/11’ does it. Love how he describes the plane crushing into the tower like it’s them lighting the Christmas tree,” said political commentator Richard Hanania.
Didn’t think Eric Adams could top his comment that he would like to retire in the Golan Heights, but “come to NYC and experience 9/11” does it. Love how he describes the plane crushing into the tower like it’s them lighting the Christmas tree.pic.twitter.com/CSxSUoYJpH
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) December 19, 2023
More reactions to Mayor Adam’s weird inclusion of the darkest day in the city’s history in his answer.
Every New Yorker knows planes crash into the NYC skyline as frequently as opening a new business.
Maybe this should become the city’s new slogan.
— Alamo_On_The_Rise (@AlamoOnTheRise) December 18, 2023
I might’ve substituted “fun parade for the whole family” or “sunny summer in the park” for “plane flying into skyscrapers and killing thousands” but that’s me, an amateur P.R. guy.
— Lex Jurgen (@Lex_Jurgen) December 18, 2023
New York: The city that can go from “chaos” to “celebration” in a New York minute!
— ZAQ RIDER (@zaqrider) December 18, 2023
“Hey honey, did you see the World Trade Center collapsed and thousands of ppl tragically died? But also, did you see there’s a new bagel place on 4th street?”
— Chase (@chasethethrill) December 18, 2023
How do we continue to elect people this freaking stupid? What a disgrace. https://t.co/YHcTgYq9lN
— Jake Asman (@JakeAsman) December 18, 2023
“We cannot forget them. You know, ‘Never Forget’ is not a bumper sticker or a slogan,” Adams said in a September interview, recalling the terrible day. “The greatest thing about New York City and America was not what happened on 9/11, but what happened on 9/12. We got up, teachers taught, builders built, and we continued to show that we were not going to bend or break.”
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