President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Eric Adams could meet at Yankee Stadium this week to discuss potential job offers that would prompt Adams to leave the mayoral race, multiple people familiar with the discussions told the New York Post.
Trump is scheduled to attend the New York Yankees–Detroit Tigers game on Thursday evening and would be in the Steinbrenner family box, where sources said any conversation with Adams would most likely take place. City Hall aides and people with ties to the White House told the Post that Adams has sought a face-to-face with the president to hear directly about possible appointments before making any decision about his long-shot re-election bid.
Sources identified Adams’ ally Frank Carone and Trump associate Steve Witkoff as intermediaries in the discussions. The Post reported that the White House has floated several positions as incentives, including the ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia. People familiar with the talks said Adams views such an ambassadorship as less attractive because the post requires Senate confirmation, and that an appointed envoy or other White House placement would be more likely to persuade him.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters she was not tracking a meeting "at this time," and said the president has expressed a desire for the mayoral contest to proceed. “He doesn’t want communists to be running New York City,” Leavitt said when asked about Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, a target of the administration’s efforts to reshape the field.
Trump and Adams had tentatively been expected to meet earlier in Washington, D.C., but schedules did not align, according to the reporting. Adams and his campaign have publicly maintained that he will remain in the race, and a City Hall representative said no meeting was penciled in for Thursday. A law enforcement official familiar with the mayor’s security arrangements said the mayor’s detail prepares contingency plans whenever a president is in the city to accommodate sudden changes in schedule.
Campaign and White House actors described a strategy that would narrow a crowded field in the New York mayoral contest, in part to present a one-on-one choice between Democratic progressive Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Some Trump allies cited internal polling that they said showed Mamdani with near-majority support and argued that many Republican and independent voters view Cuomo negatively; those allies suggested trimming the field would improve Cuomo’s competitive position. Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa has rejected any suggestion that he would withdraw.
The talks, as reported, underscore the intersection of federal personnel authority and local electoral politics. An ambassadorship requires Senate confirmation, a process that can be lengthy and uncertain; other White House or executive appointments would not require Senate approval and could be offered more swiftly. Sources cautioned that nothing had been finalized and that the reported conversations were exploratory.
If a meeting were to occur, it would mark an unusual step in which a sitting president is directly involved in shaping the candidate field of a major city’s mayoral race through potential offers of federal positions. Legal scholars and ethics experts have in past cycles raised questions about the use of federal appointments to influence state or local contests, though the particulars of any offer and the mayor’s response would shape any review of propriety.
Representatives for Adams and for the White House did not confirm plans for a meeting beyond the comments made by Leavitt. The New York Post first reported the potential stadium meeting and the floated positions; Reuters reported the president’s intention to attend the game. As of Wednesday evening, the sources said, no official meeting had been scheduled and discussions remained fluid.