Mayor Eric Adams rubbed elbows with President Trump’s surrogates for at least the fourth time in recent weeks as he tries to cozy up to the leader of the free world while facing federal corruption charges.
Adams and City Hall kept tight-lipped Thursday about whom he hobnobbed with during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.
Trump headlined the prayer breakfast, which has long been a key spot for ambitious politicians, conniving lobbyists and even Russian spies to bend the ears of top officials of any presidential administration.
Adams attended at the invite of controversial Pastor Mark Burns, whom Time Magazine has anointed “Trump’s Top Pastor.”
“Honored to host my friend NYC Mayor Eric Adams once again here at The National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC as World leaders, including President Trump coming together to pray not just for America but the World,” Burns tweeted, along with a chummy photo with the mayor.
The mayor’s trip was his second mad dash to Washington, DC in recent weeks.
Adams’ embracing of Trump comes as the mayor faces corruption charges and his legal team lobbies to score a presidential pardon or have the case dropped.
Adams, a Democrat, has conspicuously avoided criticizing Trump — and sometimes appeared to have little to do with city policy.
Adams traveled to Florida to meet with the Republican Trump near Mar-a-Lago days before the inauguration.
The mostly vegan Adams also broke bread — and ate fish — with Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Trump ally, around that time.
Hizzoner then skipped Martin Luther King Jr. Day events in the city to instead make an impromptu early-morning trek to attend Trump’s inauguration — a trip he undertook while suffering pain that prompted his uncharacteristic disappearance from the public eye last week.
The inauguration trip saw Adams consigned to an overflow room with the likes of Jake and Logan Paul, and prompted a torrent of criticism.
Adams has maintained his various trips and visits with Trump and the president’s surrogates have nothing to do with a quest for a pardon or relief from his criminal case.
He even compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr. as he defended the overtures to Trump, contending the civil rights icon famous for disrupting the status quo would have set aside “partisan politics.”
“My life is the life that Dr. King talked about when he said he had a dream,” Adams said.
But Adams’ recent trips have made for strange bedfellows, including Burns — who has called for the arrest and execution of people who support LGBTQ+ rights.
City Hall officials previously downplayed Adams sitting with Burns at the inauguration, contending he didn’t necessarily agree with the pastor nor did he have a choice in where he sat.
The mayor’s second jaunt south for the prayer breakfast was a taxpayer funded trip which he went on with newly minted deputy mayor of intergovernmental affairs Tiffany Raspberry — but City Hall wouldn’t say whom the two met with.
When asked by The Post if Burns invited Adams to the prayer breakfast, City Hall spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak was brief: “That’s what he says!”
Mamelak also downplayed Burns’ status as a Trump surrogate.
“He was sitting with a pastor at a bipartisan prayer breakfast,” she said.
Like the inauguration, it appears Adams wasn’t present for Trump’s main remarks.
Trump gave his speech from the Capitol and later spoke to a crowd inside the Washington Hilton, where Adams, Burns and a vast crowd sat.
Burns posted a video that appeared to show their table two rows back from the dais.
“I’ve actually met some very nice Democrats here,” Trump told the crowd.
