whom Trump told<\/a> no, he didn\u2019t have a falling out with Mamdani. \u201cNot at all. He\u2019s going to ruin the city, however,\u201d the president added. \u201cHis policies are no good.\u201d<\/p>\nFacciola is a determined reporter and a former colleague at Politico New York, but you wouldn\u2019t necessarily think the 28-year-old Substacker would have a direct line to the most powerful person on Earth. However, we\u2019re in an interesting time where reporters have realized that if you call the president directly, sometimes he\u2019ll talk.<\/p>\n
It reminds me of something Zohran Mamdani said in the wee hours of New Year\u2019s Day. Mamdani recounted that, as he was on his way to the most momentous event of his life, about to be sworn in as mayor of New York City, WNYC reporter Ramsey Khalifeh called him trying to confirm who the transportation commissioner would be.<\/p>\n
Mamdani didn\u2019t pick up the phone. But he did check his voicemail to see what Khalifeh was asking about.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the thing about being a journalist. You\u2019ve got to try your sources.<\/p>\n
Nobody knows that better than City & State\u2019s Rebecca C. Lewis, who has been reporting on New York\u2019s climate laws for years, and cooked up an Earth Day special explaining where we\u2019re at on the state\u2019s emissions goals and how we got here. Don\u2019t hang up just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many New Yorkers were curious about President Donald Trump\u2019s social media post on April 16 saying: \u201cSadly, Mayor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6492,9,24,63,299,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-204445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-editors-note","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-staten-island","14":"tag-staten-island-headlines","15":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}