re: New Orleans mayor says he won't attend White House meeting

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Definitely doesn't help when the city might have mis-appropriated BILLIONS of dollars in FEMA federal aid to help with infrastructure repair and improvements, but the mayor decides to do some public grandstanding like this to attack the president.

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“I will NOT be attending today’s meeting at the White House after @realDonaldTrump’s Department of Justice decided to renew their racist assault on our immigrants communities,” de Blasio tweeted.

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Why are most of the Governors almost always Republicans?

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And the vast majority of Mayors are almost always left wing Dem loons?

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Latest White House Pool Report

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Subject: In-town pool report #3

Pool was escorted at 3:26ET [Wednesday, January 24, 2018] into East Room, where mayors were seated in four row of chairs at the event.

Despite NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's pledge to boycott the event over the new sanctuary city policy, each of the four rows were filled to near capacity and around 100 attendees were present. Kellyanne Conway was among those sitting in the front now.

POTUS, wearing a dark suit and blue tie, entered at 3:37 and shook hands with a couple mayors seated near the center aisle before waiving and approaching a small podium at the center of the room.

POTUS extolled the mayors generally, saying, "We have some really hardworking people in this room." POTUS then asked a few individuals to stand: Pascagoula Mississippi Mayor Dane Maxwell, Fort Worth Texas Mayor Betsy Price and New Haven CT Mayor Toni Harp.

When Harp person didn't stand, apparently because he was absent, POTUS joked he might be a "sanctuary city person" and "that's not possible, is it?"

In response to objections over the sanctuary city policy, POTUS touted the move as a "critical legal step" and criticized those absent from the event.

"The mayors who choose to boycott this event have put the needs of criminal, illegal immigrants over law-abiding America," POTUS said. "So let me tell you, the vast majority of people showed up."

POTUS said his administration will "support local government" and is "achieving incredible results," citing job numbers indicating unemployment at record lows. POTUS specifically mentioned record low unemployments for women, African-Americans and Hispanics.

"Remember I used to say, 'What do you have to lose?'" POTUS said. "And people said, 'I don't know if that's a nice thing to say. I said, 'Of course, it is. For 100 years, the Democratic mayors have a done a terrible — I mean, they've done some bad work."

POTUS also touted tax reform, which he said creates opportunity zones and led to 2 million workers getting bonuses. Workers not getting bonuses unlike those at other companies, POTUS said, are now getting them because they're going to employers and asking why not.

"Kellyanne and others didn't talk about that because it wasn't really in the realm of thinking," POTUS said. "It's turned out really to be an avalanche and it's a beautiful thing to watch."

Making a small bit of news, POTUS said he would announce at the State of the Union address a $1.7 trillion infrastructure investment that would be laid out soon after the speech.

POTUS also referenced his upcoming trip to Davos, saying he'd use it as an opportunity to encourage foreign investment in U.S.

"I'm going to say come into the United States, you have plenty of money, but I don't think I have to go because they're coming back at very, very fast clip, so it's going to be interesting time, but they're coming back to this country," POTUS said.

After POTUS finished his remarks, he stepped down from the podium and shook hands with others in attendance near the aisle before exiting at 3:53.

A reporter shouted questions as POTUS was exiting on whether he would sit down with Robert Mueller and if he asked Andrew McCabe how he voted. They went unanswered.

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