New York City Mayor Eric Adams Gives Joe Biden a Run for His Money With 9/11 Gaffe

Just when you thought President Joe Biden was a gaffe machine, New York City Mayor Eric Adams just said, “Hold my beer.” During an interview with WPIX-TV’s Dan Mannarino, the mayor completely fumbled an answer when asked what word he would use to describe 2023.

Adams replied: "New York. This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center to a person who’s celebrating a new business that's open. This is a very, very complicated city, and that's why it's the greatest city on the globe.”

Adams’ comments referenced the 9/11 terrorist attacks in which al-Qaeda operatives flew planes into the World Trade Center, killing over 3,000 people. In all seriousness, Adams probably doesn’t think that New York City is great because another 9/11 terrorist attack could happen.

As Adams nears the end of his second year in office, voters give the mayor a negative 28 - 58 percent job approval rating with 14 percent not offering an opinion, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University poll of registered voters in New York City released today. This is the lowest job approval rating for a New York City mayor since Quinnipiac University began polling New York City registered voters in 1996.

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Only Six Percent of Americans Approve of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Job Performance

We reported earlier about the new Monmouth national poll showing President Joe Biden has dropped to his lowest approval rating ever, earning a meager 34 percent. But voters are even more unhappy with another politician, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who received an exceptionally low six percent approval rating. Meanwhile, 60 percent of respondents disapproved of the job he's been doing.

Monmouth wrote about the McConnell numbers, noting that he’s the only person in the poll who received a net negative score: The U.S. Senate’s Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell earns the lowest overall rating (6% approve and 60% disapprove among American adults), and is the only leader to receive a net negative score from his fellow partisans (10% approve and 41% disapprove among Republicans).

The public’s negative view of McConnell was the lowest in the poll, but folks don’t seem to be too happy with many other members of the House or Senate either. Only 21 percent approve of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

McConnell, 81, who is up for reelection in 2026, has not declared whether he’ll run again. He won his seventh term in 2020. He suffered a health scare this summer when he on two occasions appeared to "freeze" during press briefings and stared blankly into space. Capitol physician Brian Monahan later determined the freezing episodes could be related to recovery from a concussion after falling in March, adding that it could also have been caused by dehydration.

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