News of President Donald Trump's "audacious" move to manipulate New York City's mayoral race by offering Mayor Eric Adams a White House position and giving former Gov. Andrew Cuomo a path to defeat Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani sparked a slew of responses mocking the trio.
Adams, who was reportedly offered a position with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, declined to abandon his re-election campaign. The current mayor is lagging in polls and trailing in fourth place. Trump hopes that pulling Adams out of the general election could potentially change Mamdani's chances and grant Cuomo a win. Trump is also considering adding Curtis Sliwa, a Republican candidate, to the administration. Sliwa has also declined to drop out of the race.
The Times referred to it as a "potentially audacious intervention."
Several Bluesky and X users commented on Trump's bold interference, mocking the move.
"Cuomo is such a bad candidate that he needs Donald Trump to clear the field for him" is an amazing yet true fact," Elon Green posted on Bluesky.
“'Donald Trump is doing favors for Andrew Cuomo' is somehow going to harm Mamdani? Nah." Second Ave. Sagas posted on Bluesky.
"Cuomo running as a Trump Democrat in the NYC mayoral race is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in politics," Denny Carter posted on Bluesky.
"Cuomo can clear a path for a one on one matchup with Zohran and it's just going to mean he's going to get embarrassed more with nobody to blame but himself. Go for it, big guy. See how it feels," Cooper Lund posted on Bluesky.
"Eric Adams is actually beholden to Trump so he may have to exit disgracefully. Sliwa might be a tougher sell. Cuomo ain’t s--- because Trump is definitely trying to clear the field. NY’ers aren’t gonna fall for this s---," Candidly Tiff posted on Bluesky.
"Thinking about how Adams and Cuomo were/are both two of the most powerful and high-profile Democrats of the entire Trump era," ettingermentum posted on X.
"Really makes you wonder why Donald Trump is working so hard to elect Andrew Cuomo," Dan Pfeiffer, co-host of Pod Save America, posted on X.