Eric Adams raced down to Washington, DC, in the wee hours of Monday morning to attend President Trump’s inauguration — but we hear he was relegated to overflow seating once he arrived.
A political insider told Page Six said that, “While other pols including New York’s own Hakeem Jefferies, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton mixed and mingled with bigwigs in the main rotunda, eagle-eyed observers noticed one New Yorker noticeably absent from the room [where] the swearing-in took place.”
Indeed, Adams was photographed in the overflow area, sitting with Pastor Mark Burns, “Mighty Ducks” star-turned-Bitcoin billionaire Brock Pierce and Yaakov Flitchkin, the head of the Alliance for Global Cooperation.
Photos showed Adams, 64, only a handful of rows from the back of the space, and in the same row as MMA champ Conor McGregor.
Scoffed a longtime New York Democratic operator: “Can you imagine Mike Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani or Ed Koch driving down to Washington, DC, in the middle of the night to attend an inauguration, and being relegated [to overflow]?”
Adams was also spotted on social media posing for a photo with Nebraska cattle producer Charles Herbster, a Trump supporter who was in the running to become agriculture secretary.
Another source said of the mayor’s seating, “This is what New York City has become now… It’s beyond embarrassing.”
Then again, high-profile pols including Gov. Greg Abbott and Gov. Ron DeSantis, plus spouses of Congress members, were reportedly relegated to the same overflow room in Emancipation Hall due to the limited rotunda space.
Another source said of Adams’ seating situation: “The mayor had a seat in Emancipation Hall, where governors, like DeSantis, and other dignitaries that were not members of Congress sat. After the inaugural speech, the president came down and gave a long speech to the crowd in Emancipation Hall, where the mayor was present.”
Tech titans including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Tim Cook landed plum seats at in the Capitol rotunda, which reportedly had some lawmakers on both sides of the isle irked.
(Liberal Massachusetts pol Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted on X: “Big Tech billionaires have a front row seat at Trump’s inauguration. They have even better seats than Trump’s own Cabinet picks. That says it all.)
Adams bailed on two previously announced MLK Day events in NYC to scurry to DC after Trump’s team invited him, The Post previously reported. The mayor cleared his schedule at the last minute, withdrawing from the events in Brooklyn and Harlem.
A source told Page Six that Adams drove down with his security detail, but no other staffers.
“In the early hours of Monday morning, the Trump administration reached out inviting Mayor Adams to attend the inauguration at the incoming administration’s request,” Deputy Mayor of Communication Fabien Levy told The Post.
Rev. Al Sharpton said on MSNBC that the Adams invite clearly “has political overtones,” as the mayor faces a federal corruption indictment and could seek a pardon from Trump.
Other prominent New York Democrats skipped Trump’s inauguration.
Adams was also spotted posing for pics with YouTube stars Jake and Logan Paul at the inauguration.
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