Lip readers say President-elect Donald Trump appeared to thank New York City Mayor Eric Adams as he passed him at a UFC event at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
After reviewing footage of the encounter, certified lip-reading expert Jeremy Freeman told the Daily Mail that the pair appeared to be having a warm and intimate conversation while shaking hands.
Freeman said Trump said to the mayor, “Oh, Eric…” before Adams' head covered his face.
He kept telling Hizzoner: Thank you so much for everything…” before he cuts off again at a clip.
The moment came days after Adams publicly congratulated President Trump on his election victory and then called him privately.
Mr. Trump, who was convicted earlier this year of falsifying business records in Manhattan, has in the past He seemed sympathetic to Mr. Adams.
“We were persecuted, Eric. I was persecuted, and so are you, Eric,” Trump told the mayor at the Al Smith dinner last month.
Adams, the first sitting New York mayor to be indicted, has pleaded not guilty and said he still plans to run for re-election.
Adams and Trump said Adams was targeted by the Justice Department for being an outspoken critic of the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the immigration crisis as hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants flooded into the Big Apple. claims.
Some in the mayor's campaign believe Trump could block the case or even throw out the conviction, people told the Post.
