Mayor Eric Adams insisted President Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan was joking — and later apologized and — after publicly threatening to be up Hizzoner’s “butt” if he fails to crack down on unlawful migrants.
The Trump appointee threw the brazen warning on the mayor throughout a joint look on Fox Information final week because the Democratic mayor vowed to adjust to Trump’s anti-illegal immigration push.
“That is what we do. We joke at one another,” Adams advised NY1 Wednesday when requested about Homan’s weird remark.
“A few of our commentary is, you already know, inappropriate for those who’re on the stage. And he spoke with me, he says, ‘, Eric, I imply, you already know, we’re on TV. I mustn’t have mentioned that. I apologize to you.’”
The obvious menace got here as Homan and Adams — in an uncommon bipartisan show — had been discussing how the feds and Large Apple officers deliberate to work collectively to deal with the ongoing border disaster.
“If he doesn’t come by means of, I’ll be again in New York Metropolis and we gained’t be sitting on the sofa, I’ll be in his workplace, up his butt, saying, ‘The place the hell is that this settlement we got here to?’” Homan mentioned, seated subsequent to Adams on a sofa for the “Fox & Mates” interview final Friday.
Hizzoner laughed loudly, earlier than hitting again, “And I would like ICE to ship.”
“We’re going to ship for the protection of the folks of this metropolis,” he mentioned.
The joint look adopted a closed-door assembly between Adams and Homan a day earlier on the ICE headquarters in Manhattan — throughout which the mayor promised he’d reopen the ICE workplace on Rikers Island.
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