NYC Mayor Adams attending Trump’s inauguration after last-minute invitation

Mayor Adams volition be President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday aft getting a last-minute invitation that led him to cancel appearances astatine aggregate Martin Luther King Jr. Day events successful New York.

Adams — whose simpatico narration with Trump has prompted speculation he’s looking for ineligible assistance with his national corruption lawsuit — didn’t person a telephone from Trump’s squad until astir 2 a.m. Monday informing him the incoming president had personally asked helium be the inauguration, according to a City Hall spokeswoman.

The mayor, who met privately with Trump conscionable this past Friday, past got connected the roadworthy earlier dawn successful bid to get to Washington, D.C. successful clip for Trump’s noon inauguration ceremony astatine the U.S. Capitol, the spokeswoman said.

“As the politician has repeatedly said, America has chosen a caller nationalist person and we indispensable enactment unneurotic to physique a safer, stronger, and much affordable successful New York City,” Adams spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak said successful a connection connected the 11th-hour jaunt to the capital.

Staff hole up of the inauguration ceremonial earlier Donald Trump is sworn successful arsenic the 47th President successful the Capitol Rotunda successful Washington connected Jan. 20, 2025. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

In bid to marque the trip, the blimpish Democrat politician canceled planned appearances astatine MLK Day celebrations successful Brooklyn and Manhattan that had been enactment connected his authoritative nationalist docket conscionable aft midnight Sunday.

He besides skipped an MLK Day event astatine a Brooklyn religion Sunday evening that doubled arsenic a 94th day solemnisation for his self-described mentor and civilian rights leader, the Rev. Herbert Daughtry.

On Friday, Adams met privately with Trump astatine his namesake play nine successful Florida. Adams said successful a statement aft the Florida gathering that helium didn’t sermon his “legal case” with Trump during the sit-down.

In September, Manhattan national prosecutors indicted Adams connected transgression charges alleging helium took bribes and amerciable run contributions from Turkish authorities operatives successful speech for governmental favors.

Adams, who has pleaded not guilty, maintains that his prosecution is politically motivated, stemming from his disapproval of outgoing President Biden’s handling of the nationalist migrant crisis.

Trump, the archetypal convicted felon to go president, has echoed the governmental prosecution claims and said past period helium would see pardoning Adams for his alleged crimes, claiming the politician is being treated “unfairly.” When asked whether helium would judge a pardon from Trump, Adams has lone said that his ineligible squad is exploring each anticipation of ensuring “justice.”