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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.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gets it wrong... New York governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to take a one-year pause in permitting data centers is a winning issue for her... JD Vance fails to bail out Trump from the mess that he created.
JPMorganChase chief Jamie Dimon warns of lurking risks that could upend Wall Street's gravy train... Iran foreign minister praises Trump's looney "guardian of the Strait" idea... State Dept. scolds NYC's international affairs unit for overplaying its hand... Historian Timothy Snyder graciously puts his '"Hitler and Stalin" lecture series online to alert people that "it" could happen here.
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, is more popular among American Jews than prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu... Donald Trump is the first leader since Benito Mussolini in 1934 to intervene publicly in his national team’s favor... It's surprising that JD Vance hardly uses the word "Catholic" in his memoir about his conversion to Catholicism.
President Trump killed much of the positive PR that the US has enjoyed as one of the co-hosts of the World Cup... Pride in the US sinks to 25-year low, Gallup finds... White House trashes Smithsonian's US History Museum as the MAGA version of un-American.
Donald Trump claims we are all profiting from Wall Street's rising prices, but the billion-dollar president sure did a lot better than the rest of us... Venezuela hopes the $300M in US reconstructiion aid will follow the same growth trajectory as the White House's East Wing ballroom project.
