Why does Trump keep interfering in the NYC mayoral race?

President Donald Trump has long been associated with the glitz and glamour of New York City’s upper crust and the Manhattan social scene that transformed him from a local property mogul into a household name nationwide. Although he has since relocated his personal and political operations to Washington, D.C., New York still looms large for the now-president. He has seemingly gone out of his way to tip the scales of the Big Apple’s upcoming mayoral elections away from surging frontrunner, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. But are Trump’s reported overtures to mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and incumbent Eric Adams motivated by politics, or do they signal a different goal?

What did the commentators say?

Members of the Trump administration have “discussed the possibility”