A Mayor Walks Into Trump Tower. A Circus Follows.

Maybe if he wasn't such a showboating hypocrite he'd be taken more seriously. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-climate-cars.html -S

Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow.

New Yorkers seem to hate him and complain about De Blasio at every available opportunity, yet I have no doubt he would get elected a third time if he could run. Go figure.

“The ostensible reason that Mr. de Blasio was in Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan was to promote a new city law that aims to force building owners — like Mr. Trump, for example — to curb their energy use as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to combat climate change.” You fail to mention that de Blasio was demanding that the Trump organization comply with the new law - so new de Blasio hasn’t even signed it - and that he threatened severe financial penalties. Most importantly you fail to mention that de Blasio only began to champion climate change after a 28 year old freshman congress woman with zero experience in climate science or any other science, or government, or law, or leadership or anything else that would be considered “qualifying” for congress introduced an idea largely considered to be a joke by people who do have the above credentials.

Live in Boston, but in NYC 5 days a week and pays close attention to politics, I have to ask: why do you all like this guy? He hasn’t seemed to deliver on the Subway, housing and development for middle income residents. Wait, it sounds like Boston’s Mayor too! We should expect better.

I find it very sad that he is trying to help fight climate change, but is attacked for no matter what he does. Then again, I think anyone who says that they could be a better mayor are nothing but a bunch of talkers and will probably never run for it in real life. Honestly, there are so many other cities and towns that would love to have someone such as Bill de Blasio. What's unfortunate is that he is always in a lose-lose situation no matter what he does. By that, I mean that if he doesn't do something, he will be viewed as being apathetic. Meanwhile, if he does do something, he will be viewed as not helping enough. In a way, I'm sort of like him, because no matter what I try to do, I can never please anybody, because they always claim I didn't do it to what they liked or they keep on raising the bar on me at every turn. However, since I'm not an actual politician, I do have the right to just give up on others cold turkey if I feel that I can never please them unlike those such as de Blasio who aren't that lucky. Even if he were a god moved heaven and earth, many of you will still say he did a bad job of it. As for those Trump supporters, they need to get a life or at least a real job, but I guess the economy was good enough for them to have one.

The Democratic Party already has over 20 qualified candidates. That shouldn't automatically preclude other folks from joining the field. But for practical purposes, it makes sense for any such individuals to have some skill, ideology, approach, or ability to connect with people that is lacking in the other candidates. Mayor DeBlasio brings nothing new to the table. There are plenty of progressives already in the race. And unlike Mayor DeBlasio, with his habitual lateness, notorious temper, and visibly pompus attitude, they aren't rude.

Bill de Blasio reminds me of when you hear about a once very famous person passing away, you think, didn't they die years ago. If it weren't for his periodic public foibles, I tend to forget he is the mayor. During his two terms, other than giving Ms. de Blasio the key to vault via ThriveNYC, I'm not sure what he's done. Wait, I will give him kudos for free Pre-K for all but that's it.

Having a few people in NYC up in arms is a great sign, as it taking the fight right to the enemy in Trump Tower. The kicker is that the NYT is recently running articles against him ... this makes me immediately interested that De Blasio run for President.

Great planning, Mr. Mayor. Please don't run for President (unless you switch parties). But, if his newish building with the big ugly sign in Chicago is the kind of efficiency he knocks out, Trump would lose bigly if energy efficiency targets became enforceable. https://news.wttw.com/2017/01/09/trump-s-chicago-skyscraper-bottom-city-s-energy-rankings "Of the 100 largest buildings listed in Chicago’s 2016 Energy Benchmarking database, the president-elect’s 98-story riverfront tower ranks last in energy performance. The rating is based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star scoring system, which measures how efficiently buildings use energy on a scale of 1 to 100, with 50 indicating average energy performance." On the 1-100 scale, with 100 being best, Trump Tower was scored a 9. So people paying to live there are also paying extra with every utility bill.

Methinks all the similar-sounding criticism of the Mayor in the previous comments comes from bots. I hope people will judge the Mayor and all the Democratic candidates on the merits and also put things in perspective. The true crook and all-around bad person, who seems to find new ways to debase himself every day, is Trump. He must go. ANYONE BUT TRUMP 2020.

No one from Iowa or New Hampshire chiming in? Scathing comments below from NYers? Now hear this, Mr. Mayor...

Bill wants to be president! He may run on the Green Party ticket and get AOC to raise millions in campaign cash---the man demands change!

New York is a mess run by Democrats. San Francisco is a mess run by Democrats. Etc. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The United States of America chose a different result last time and everybody's 401k has been on an upward path since, unemployment is less and jobs and wages are more, taxes are less and business is booming, especially in Texas, where I live. I disagree "New York doesn't deserve this". You deserve exactly what you voted for. Just don't try to impose it on the rest of us dumb "deplorables" who voted for something different, and got it. We like economic success. Capitalism works, socialism doesn't. I do hope you folks figure this out before you vote New York into Little Venezuela. President Trump is doing a far better job than I expected he could do- imagine how great it would be if the rest of the "resistors' quit throwing rocks at him and helped pull the wagon of prosperity?

Quinnipiac poll April 3: "De Blasio should not run for president, New York City voters say 76 - 18 percent. Every listed party, gender, racial, borough and age group agrees that the mayor should not hit the campaign trail." Mayor? MAYOR?? What are you thinking? What are you really after?

Lol. It's amazing that a mayor so disliked by so many of the people who know him best thinks he can win over people in the rest of the country. He's turning into a taller Giuliani, with the same narcissism and ineffective leadership.

Is the bench in public use?

As much as I dislike about de Blasio, Lying Don does not own the atrium and the other public spaces in Trump Tower and the Mayor should not have been subjected to loud music, protesters? yes.

Ooh, watch out Trump, De Blasio will fine you....$469,848....in 2030! It's like the Dr. Evil guy from the Austin Powers movies saying he wants a million dollars.

Those "protesters" with similar-looking signage may have been recruited from the same group of actors Trump hired for that fateful trip down the escalators to announce his run for the presidency.

I think for once in my life I agree with Eric Trump. This news conference was a childish stunt. DeBlasio is as poorly qualified to be president as, well, the president.

Only 12 comments at the time of my writing but not a single one supports DiBlasio’s stunt or the job he is doing as Mayor. Add me to the list. I am a lifelong Democrat and NYC resident and I just wish DiBlasio would go away. A real failure as Mayor, but hey let’s run for President.

If all these gainfully employed senators and mayors running for the democrat nomination possessed so much as a thimbleful of integrity, they would resign from the office which they will now spend a year and a half ignoring... while still pocketing a tax-payer supplied salary of $174,000 (senators) or $225,000 (deBlasio) per year. Imagine missing much of your job then offering the excuse: "I'm looking for another job." Tax payers should not subsidize a politician's delusions of grandeur. https://emcphd.wordpress.com

Mr Neuman you may call it a draw but the reports and videos on the 5 o'clock news made him look absolutely foolish. This stunt was staged for national coverage as a prelude to his presidential announcement. The whole thing backfired on him especially the signs that said "worst mayor ever". The other 22 Democratic candidates are having a good chuckle.

Trump and de Blasio; two incompetent, lazy and out of touch politicians who would be better for all of us if they just faded away. I'm proud to say I did not vote for either of these grandstanding blowhards...

Clown vs. Clown. But at least DeBlasio is attempting to accomplish something worthwhile for the country.

The Trumps and de Blasio have two things in common, they've built the same amount of affordable housing and they share such a complete lack of self-awareness that it's painful to watch.

de Blasio is unqualified to be dog catcher, much less the mayor of New York City. He has accomplished nothing. Homelessness is at record numbers. The streets are filthy. The transit system is a total disaster. Now he is contemplating a run for president? What a nerve. He needs to finish out his term as mayor and fade into oblivion.

Rue the day I agree with Eric Trump - but yeah, BdB was childish in this stupid stunt. He's living life more and more removed from reality; if he really wanted to implement climate policy in NYC, maybe stop fueling your stupid ferries for the 1% with diesel. Maybe stop flying to Italy. Or Iowa. Or New Hampshire. Maybe encourage people to ride their bikes more and stop ticketing them or allowing drivers to kill them in the streets. And yes, maybe STOP DRIVING YOUR SUVs TO PARK SLOPE WHEN YOU LIVE ACROSS THE STREET FROM ASPHALT GREEN De Blasio gives NYC and Dems a bad name. What a disgrace.

After reading the story again, I realized the Tony Bennett music was under the control of building, not the mayor. Now that is funny. Who stages a media event to ridicule someone by putting themselves in the environment controlled by that someone? Now I remember: King Arthur and the knights in Monty Python’s Holy Grail, insulting the French guy on the castle wall who then dropped boulders atop them. That skit was funny too. My thanks to Mayor de Blasio for the humor. He is still no Eric Idle.

Poor Warren Wilhelm. Engulfed by delusion, utterly disinterested in his current job and the city he is supposed to serve, lost in a thicket of emptiness and failure and defeat. New York City deserves so much better; a mayor who actually cares about the city, its people, its hopes and dreams. In my lifetime I, personally, have never encountered a public serving less connected to the public or to the place. Very sad.

This truly embarrassing. This is political grandstanding at it's absolute worst. What did Mayor de Blasio think he was going to accomplish? His campaign for POTUS has ended before it began. Stunts like this plays into the Fox News narrative that Democrats are hopelessly out of touch. Mayor de Blasio going forward needs to keep a much lower profile.

The Tower, I am sure, had their fingers on the volume knob as a little bit of ambience for de Blasio. No poke in the eye is too small to be passed over by the Tower's owner.

This guy is a legend in his own mind. Tone deaf and narcissistic, he espouses many of the causes I believe in but always manages to drop the ball, except when he is taking care of his cronies . I wish he would just go away....

I can't believe I'm agreeing with Eric Trump. De Blasio's latest event was childish. Regardless of the merits of the new city council bill to regulate building emissions, holding a rally for it in Trump Tower is merely an attention-grabbing stunt meant to position De Blasio as a foil to Trump, boosting presidential fantasies that only De Blasio entertains. A De Blasio presidential campaign is a childish indulgence. No one wants him to be president other than the man himself and perhaps some city hall staffers who wouldn't mind having a different boss. I'm split on whether it would be worse or better for New York to have a mayor whose attention is divided. In most administrations, the city would suffer. With De Blasio, it might benefit.

The law about energy use in large buildings is definitely not Green New Deal which emphasizes use of renewable energy sources and increasing the standard of living for the 99%. This law is definitely a carbon tax that will weigh most heavily on the vulnerable. It may even be a sneaky way of accelerating gentrification by upping rent in rentals and monthly maintenance and special assessments in coops and condos. The elderly on fixed income will likely be the first to be rendered homeless under this mindless, heartless fraud. It will not lead to important progress in reducing greenhouse gases but will lead to social regression. It has not been subjected to the full environmental/socioeconomic impact assessment required by NYS.

I have visited New York many times and have always found it an inspiring city populated by wonderful, creative and genuinely nice people. However, reading articles like this make me glad I live in a place far, far away.