NYC Mayor Eric Adams Enters Press Conference To JAY-Z’s “Run This Town,” X/Twitter Reacts
Mayor Eric Adams entered a meeting as “Run This Town” soundtracked his walkout.
On Tuesday (Oct. 3), Mayor Adams attended an “off-topic” press conference where he would only answer off-topic questions from reporters. According to the New York Post, the new policy arrived as a response to his opponents and the media critiquing his efforts during New York City’s flood and ongoing migrant crisis.
Adams insisted that the new limited pressers would prevent mixing messages and “to be as clear as possible.” Well, during the inaugural edition of “off-topic” Tuesdays, Eric decided to tap into his inner Jay-Z. The informality of walking out to 2009’s “Run This Town” rubbed X/Twitter the wrong way. And, of course, the internet voiced its disdain.
“Nah they gotta vote Eric Adams out. The ni**atry is too high. Walking in to ‘Run This Town’ is so unserious,” one user xweeted. “Eric Adams came out to ‘Run This Town,’ boy really the Black Trump lmao,” another account typed.
“Like are you a politician or a professional wrestler. I’m so confused,” a X/Twitter user quipped. “Eric Adams having ‘Run This Town’ as his intro song for a PRESS CONFERENCE was… a choice. The man is deeply unserious.” “Eric Adams having ‘Run This Town’ as his intro song will never not be funny,” an additional voice chimed in.
The spectacle arrived on the same day that NYC announced they would suspend the “right to shelter” agreement. WIVB reported that Mayor Adams and his team filed a request on Tuesday (Oct. 4) asking a court to allow them to pause the requirement. Under an influx of international migrants, the city claims it “is at capacity.”
“With more than 122,700 asylum seekers having come through our intake system since the spring of 2022, and projected costs of over $12 billion for three years, it is abundantly clear that the status quo cannot continue,” the Democratic politician said. “New York City cannot continue to do this alone.”
“What is the alternative? If we do not have a right to shelter, if we are turning people away from the shelter system, if people are now living in the streets, in the subways, in the parks, is that the outcome that they want?” he added. “That is something we have not seen in decades. I don’t think any New Yorker wants to see that. I don’t think city officials want to see that, but that would be the result if they prevailed here.”
The city has argued that the “right to shelter” agreement was never intended to be used as a humanitarian effort.
NYC’s unique shelter requirement was created in 1981 and has been in place since. The original intention behind the agreement was to use it to house every homeless person.
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