Mayor Bill de Blasio really wants to run for president. There’s just one small problem: no one likes him.

Sure, he has a small grouping of loyalists, but New York City has so many problems that the average person sees the mayor not making the effort to fix. Not to mention his really bad relationship with the NYPD over the course of his administration.

It’s obvious that de Blasio is testing the waters for a presidential run. So, he decided to hold a little “Green New Deal” rally for himself. Get a little good publicity, get a few good staged photos for the eventual announcement, blah blah blah. AND he decided to hold said rally in Trump Tower, because he’s totally sticking it to Trump, man!

Well, it didn’t go as planned.

Speaking in front of the same escalators where Trump launched his 2016 campaign, de Blasio blasted the president’s rollback of Obama-era environmental policies, his move to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement and his appointment of climate change skeptics to the Cabinet.”

“His buildings are one of the biggest polluters in New York City,” de Blasio said. “Cut your emissions or we’ll cut something you really care about.”

De Blasio, who is mulling a Democratic presidential run, added: “We’ll take your money.”

The mayor, though, was forced to shout for much of his speech amid jeers from a crowd of about a dozen protesters inside the lobby of Trump Tower, which also had music blasting over the speakers. A number of protesters rode up and down the escalator behind de Blasio carrying cardboard signs with slogans like “Worst Mayor Ever,” “Failed Mayor,” and “Trump 2020.”

De Blasio said he did not mind the protesters and added that it was “so nice for them to serenade us.”

“They’re scared of the truth,” he said. “Anyone that has a problem with saving the planet, I have a problem with them.”

Oh my. These optics. My sides. Notice how tightly this video is cropped? And you can still see the signs going up and down the escalators!

The future of our planet is on the line, so let me put this in terms that even @realDonaldTrump can understand: fix your buildings or you'll owe our city $2.1 million.

And this city doesn't let con men get away with not paying the bill. pic.twitter.com/2TfVOmkPCF

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) May 14, 2019

I'm laughing so hard!

Snake oil salesman de Blasio tried to sell the ludicrous Green New Deal, while Trump supporters rode the escalator behind him with signs.

This is magical. pic.twitter.com/DUVYfPod2E

— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) May 13, 2019

Mayor de Blasio is a joke, but apparently no one has let him in on that fact. Go ahead and let him become the 21st 22nd 23rd Democrat running for president. Why not? If the rally is any indication, at least a de Blasio run would be highly entertaining.

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