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The Partnership for New York, a blue blood organization of companies that employ 1M New Yorkers, lashed out at Donald Trump’s power grab move to kill congestion pricing in Manhattan.
It demolished Trump’s claim that business is against congestion because it cuts the number of people driving to the city.
Kathryn Wylde, CEO of the Partnership, believes Trump made a terrible mistake. She said congestion pricing has “resulted in reduced traffic congestion, safer streets, cleaner air and is producing revenues for mass transit.”
In his Truth Social post, Trump wrote: CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” The guy is out of his mind.
New York governor Kathy Hochul doesn’t consider herself to be a subject of King Donald. “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king,” she posted on X. “We will see you in court.”
The peasants are staging a revolt.
Inspired by the Associated Press’ decision not to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, O’Dwyer’s has pounced into action.
Recasting that body of water doesn’t make sense, or as a fair-minded president Trump might say: “Mexico is being treated very unfairly.”
That country has jurisdiction over 49 percent of the Gulf. The US has 46 percent, and Cuba has five percent.
After careful consideration, O’Dwyer’s has decided to retaliate against the president’s renaming decision.
We have decided to stop using “Trump Tower” as the description of the black and bronze-colored residential, office and retail building on Manhattan’s Fifth Ave.
We will refer to that 58-floor monstrosity as 725 Fifth Ave. or the old Bonwit Teller department store. Unlike its successor, Bonwit was one classy place.
O’Dwyer’s is still hashing out what we will call the Trump International Hotel & Tower on Columbus Circle.
Shakedown on Musk Street… The Wall Street Journal ran a blockbuster piece about the alleged shakedown of advertisers to run ads on Elon Musk’s X platform.
It reported that a lawyer from Interpublic reportedly received a phone call in December from a counterpart at X. “Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else,” was the message.
Interpublic saw it as a sign that Team Trump could move to block or slow its $13B deal to merge with Omnicom.
The firm has signed a new annual ad spending deal with X.
Interpublic downplayed the report: “We do not make spending commitments on behalf of clients to any partner or platform, and decision-making authority always rests with the client,” said a spokesperson.
WPP is reportedly cutting its own deal.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt needs a pair of glasses... Messaging about need to restore foreign aid stars on Broadway... Trump resists temptation of comparing himself to Jesus Christ at White House Faith Office lunch... Public affairs hero Patty Harman sounds alarm.
Bored with being just the president of the US, Trump expands role to Emperor of the Americas... Funded by the One Big Beautiful Bonkers Bill, ICE will become the largest paramilitary in the US. Will it become the Emperor's militia?
WPP pushes panic button after it names new CEO right after cutting profit, revenue guidance. Is the ship sinking?... PR play of the week goes to Benjamin Netanyahu for nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for doing Israel's bidding....WK Kellogg is the latest US corporate icon to be gobbled up by a foreign company. Will Tony the Tiger be recast at Antonio the Tiger?....When will somebody in Trump's Cabinet do the right thing and resign?
Hill & Knowlton wraps up a glorious 43-year run of representing some of the world's most infamous characters as it closes the books on its FARA representation... Americans want no more military adventures in the Middle East, unless the US is directly threatened... There may soon be opportunities in North Korea for adventurous PR firms. 
Look for a bruising election fight between embattled New York mayor Eric Adams and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, who is exactly what his party needs to regain its mojo... Donald Trump’s brain is more obliterated than the Iranian nuclear site in Fordo that was struck by a series of big, beautiful, bunker-buster bombs... Speaker Mike Johnson becomes Trump's lapdog more and more each day.
