Mayor Eric Adams made a last-minute trip to Washington, DC Wednesday night to attend a prayer breakfast where President Trump will deliver remarks the following morning.
Adams is scheduled to attend the National Prayer Breakfast — an annual event where the president, Congress members and other leaders break bread in the nation’s capital — Thursday morning and left the city Wednesday night, according to City Hall.
His visit marks the third time in recent weeks that Adams, who is facing corruption charges, and Trump will be in the same room as the Democrat’s legal team lobbies to clinch a presidential pardon or have the case dropped.
Late last month, Hizzoner skipped Martin Luther King Jr. Day events in the city to instead make an eleventh-hour trip to attend Trump’s inauguration. He also traveled to Florida to meet with the Republican at Mar-a-Lago days before he was sworn into office.
Adams has been careful not to criticize Trump, including over tariffs the president ordered on Canada and Mexico before a temporary pause was enacted this week. Trump had admitted his tariffs might cause “some pain” for Americans, but claimed it’d “all be worth the price.”
A City Hall spokesperson downplayed Adams’ scheduled attendance at the prayer breakfast, noting it’s a bipartisan event that several presidents, including former President Barack Obama, have spoken at.
According to the event organizers, every president “regardless of party or religious persuasion” has joined the breakfast since it was started in 1953.
Thursday, however, will be the first time Adams attends the National Prayer Breakfast, according to a review of his past schedules.
It was not clear who invited Adams to the annual event, which merges religion and politics, and if Trump’s team had a role in getting the mayor back to DC.
Trump’s Department of Justice has opened talks between Adams’ legal team and Manhattan federal prosecutors as the under-fire mayor seeks to have the corruption charges dropped in an election year, a source confirmed to The Post last week.
Even if the DOJ moved to get the case tossed, a judge would still need to approve the request.
Trump had previously said, while on the campaign trail, that he would consider pardoning Adams, who has denied all wrongdoing.
Hizzoner has been accused of taking bribes — including $123,000 in free flights and other ritzy perks — from foreign nationals in exchange for favors, according to a federal indictment.
His corruption trial is pegged for April.
