Around 1 a.m. on Monday morning, Mayor Eric Adams received the call he'd been angling for for weeks—one inviting him to Donald Trump's inauguration.
That call came not from the man himself, as Adams's team initially told reporters, but from Steve Witkoff, the real estate developer who is also, for some reason, Trump's envoy to the Middle East. (Witkoff was present at Adams's meeting with the president at Mar-a-Lago last week.)
Naturally, our mayor speedily canceled his MLK Day plans and hopped in a car at 3 a.m. to make the drive down to D.C. "Mayor Adams accepted on behalf of New York City," Deputy Mayor for Communications Fabien Levy wrote in a statement.