Eric Adams: He promised to save New York City. Instead, he was Trump’s flunky.

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The lengthy, bizarre political career of New York City Mayor Eric Adams has arrived at its inevitable, ignominious end. On Sunday afternoon—just weeks after insisting he was not dropping out of the race and taking a job with the Trump administration—Adams tweeted a suitably overwrought video from the steps of Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence, declaring that he was no longer seeking a second term, though he’d serve out the rest of the year and remain on the general-election ballot as a solo member of the “SafeAndAffordable” and “EndAntisemitism” party lines .

“I cannot continue my reelection campaign,” Adams humbly submitted on camera as he sa