It’s Job-blehead Night at Yankee Stadium.
Mayor Eric Adams and President Trump could meet during a game at Yankee Stadium this week instead of at the White House as speculation grows over the future of Hizzoner’s long-shot re-election bid, The Post has learned.
Adams wants a face-to-face with Trump — who is set to attend the Yanks-Tigers matchup Thursday — before he potentially takes the unprecedented step of ditching his campaign for a cushy job in the Republican administration, City Hall insiders said.
Gigs including the ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia have been floated by the White House in a bid to entice Adams to drop his likely doomed bid and narrow the field against socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, sources said.
Trump and Adams’ schedules ultimately didn’t align for a tentative meeting Monday in Washington, DC, sources said.
Sources said the MLB game could now be the best time for Adams to hear directly from the president, who’s visiting the city on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks — although nothing has officially been scheduled.
“Not tracking a meeting at this time, but if that happens, I’m sure the New York Post will be the first to know,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House’s press secretary, quipped on Tuesday.
Trump will be watching the 7:05 p.m. game from the Yankees-owning Steinbrenner family’s box — which is where any meeting with Adams would unfold, sources said.
Adams’ longtime ally Frank Carone and Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff have acted as middle men in the talks, according to sources.
Trump and his advisers have been maneuvering to thin the crowded Big Apple mayoral race of Adams and, to a lesser extent, GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa in an attempt to create a one-on-one race between Mamdani and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Sliwa has flatly rejected any suggestion he’ll drop out.
Adams, while he has insisted he’ll stay in the race, has been publicly and privately more receptive, according to sources.
But the sources said Adams considers an ambassadorship — such as the one to Saudi Arabia floated by Witkoff — to be a no-go, given he’ll have to be confirmed by Congress and is thus not a guaranteed job.
An envoy or another position appointed by Trump would be more likely to sway Adams, the sources said.
Some Trump allies, however, believe it’s too late to derail Mamdani — noting that polling shows the Democratic nominee with close to majority support and that many Republican and independent voters consider Cuomo corrupt and “a creep,” according to sources.
Leavitt, when asked if Adams will be offered a job, said Trump has made it clear he wants the mayoral race to move forward.
“He doesn’t want communists to be running New York City,” she said, referring to Mamdani. “But as for weighing in on other individual candidates, I’ll leave that to the president to do himself.”
Adams’ campaign team and City Hall both had no meeting penciled in for Thursday.
A law-enforcement source said Adams’ security detail always makes plans for the mayor to abruptly change their schedule when any president is in New York City, and has contingency plans to make it work on the fly.
— Additional reporting by Matthew Fischetti
