New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio jumped into the 2020 race on Thursday and immediately took a page out of President Trump's playbook.
De Blasio spoke with Good Morning America for his first televised interview after his 2020 announcement. The appearance may have only been a few minutes long, but the mayor still managed to squeeze in two usages of his rhyming nickname for the president.
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
A few minutes later, de Blasio repeated the nickname for Trump while arguing the president has "conned us into thinking he's on the side of the working people when he's really on the side of the one percent."
Trump has yet to respond with his own nickname for de Blasio, although he tweeted on Thursday morning that de Blasio is "considered the worst mayor in the U.S." and "NYC HATES HIM!" Trump apparently wasn't up on the latest developments, though, considering he wrote that de Blasio "will supposedly be making an announcement" even though that announcement came about two hours earlier.
Other topics covered in de Blasio's Good Morning America interview included a recent Quinnipiac poll in which 76 percent of New York City voters said they didn't want de Blasio to run, which the mayor shrugged off by saying that "the poll that actually matters is the election." Brendan Morrow
-
Strava vs. Garmin: the row splitting the running communityUnder The Radar The legal dispute between the two titans of exercise tech is like ‘Mom and Dad fighting’
-
Bad Bunny: Why MAGA is incensedFeature The NFL announced Latino artist Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime headliner, sparking MAGA outrage
-
Supreme Court: Judging 20 years of RobertsFeature Two decades after promising to “call balls and strikes,” Chief Justice John Roberts faces scrutiny for reshaping American democracy
-
Venezuela: Does Trump want war?Feature Donald Trump has accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of leading a drug cartel and waging a narco-terrorism campaign against the United States
-
Two years on, a Gaza truce may be in sightFeature Israel and Hamas consider the U.S.’ 20-point peace plan exchanging hostages for prisoners
-
News organizations reject Pentagon restrictionsSpeed Read The proposed policy is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest move to limit press access at the Pentagon
-
Trump declares end to Gaza war, ‘dawn’ of new MideastSpeed Read Hamas freed the final 20 living Israeli hostages and Israel released thousands of Palestinian detainees
-
Has the Gaza deal saved Netanyahu?Today's Big Question With elections looming, Israel’s longest serving PM will ‘try to carry out political alchemy, converting the deal into political gold’
-
Trump’s deportations are changing how we think about foodIN THE SPOTLIGHT The Department of Labor’s admission that immigration raids have affected America’s food supplies reopens a longstanding debate
-
Trump DOJ indicts New York AG Letitia JamesSpeed Read New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted as Trump’s Justice Department pursues charges against his political opponents
-
Judge blocks Trump’s Guard deployment in ChicagoSpeed Read The president is temporarily blocked from federalizing the Illinois National Guard or deploying any Guard units in the state
