Mayor Eric Adams took another shot at the White House over the ongoing migrant crisis Tuesday, saying President Biden was nowhere to be found.
“Where the heck is the president of the United States?” Fox 5 “Good Day New York” co-host Rosanna Scotto asked Hizzoner during an interview.
“That is a good question,” the mayor responded. “I think we all should be asking, ‘Why is this happening to a city that was turning itself around and will continue to do so?’
“This should not be happening to New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and the other big northern cities,” Adams added. “And really it should not be happening to El Paso or Brownsville, Texas. No city should be carrying this burden. This is a national problem and it needs a national solution.”
Adams, 62, has publicly and repeatedly criticized the 80-year-old Biden over the president’s handling of the nation’s border crisis, which has seen tens of thousands of migrants arrive in the Big Apple and is straining the city’s shelter capacity.
The mayor’s repeated criticism led to him being snubbed from Biden’s re-election campaign national leadership advisory team last week — while other state and local Democrats made the cut.
The Rev. Al Sharpton reportedly is working to smooth things over between Adams and Biden, with the MSNBC host and National Action Network founder telling Axios: “I’m trying to get them to sort it out.”
“I would hope [the White House] sees the value of Eric, the mayor of the largest city, a black mayor, not all the way left, not all the way right,” Sharpton added.
Scotto also confronted the mayor Tuesday about a plan to house some migrants in school gyms, angering parents who vented about the move to The Post.
“It just seems mind-boggling that we’re doing this on the backs of our kids,” a visibly exasperated Scotto said.
“You see that frustration you just showed, I’ve been feeling that frustration for the last nine, 10 months as I’ve watched our city go through this,” answered Adams, who confirmed the plan involved 20 gyms not located directly inside school buildings.
“They are one of the areas we are looking at. We’re not there yet. … We have to create a list of locations because the flow has not stopped, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop.”
Adams signed an executive order last week that relaxed the city’s right-to-shelter law for homeless persons to keep services handling the migrant crisis from being overwhelmed.
A senior official in a Democrat-led state told Axios that Adams was “right to be upset” about the migrant situation, adding the White House and Biden campaign made “a massive mistake to be dismissive of him.”
Adams spokesman Fabien Levy told The Post: “As the mayor has previously stated, he stands ready to help the president with re-election however he can.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Adams announced in March he would join Biden’s 2024 campaign but maintained the move wouldn’t deter him from criticizing the president’s handling of the migrant crisis.
The next month, he followed through on that statement, telling New Yorkers: “The president and the White House have failed this city.”
That same month, at a panel discussion hosted by the African American Mayors Association, Adams said: “The city is being destroyed by the migrant crisis.”
Days later, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced their re-election campaign.
Julie Chávez Rodríguez, the president’s 2024 campaign manager, has expressed frustration to her colleagues about Adams’ blunt remarks against her boss, according to Axios.
“Of course calls in which electeds you admire criticize the administration can be frustrating,” a White House official said of Rodríguez in response to the report, “but she’s a pro who always deals with it respectfully and constructively.”
