CITY HALL — Two days after President-elect Donald Trump beat his former boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he's "still processing" his thoughts on why Hillary Clinton lost — and he's still unsure of exactly how a Trump presidency will affect New York City.
"I’m just going to tell you upfront that I’m going to need a few more days to come up with the kind of answers that I feel confident in," the mayor said before hosting a question and answer session Thursday with reporters in City Hall's Blue Room.
"I will be very happy to tell you what I’m thinking when I finish thinking," he later added.
De Blasio already sent a a warning shot to Trump Wednesday in a 4 1/2 minute speech that the city would fight any efforts from Washington to do mass deportations of undocumented immigrants or slash Obamacare.
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Trump has said he plans to repeal Obamacare and has threatened to deport undocumented immigrants while withholding funding for sanctuary cities that shield them.
But exactly what Trump's plans are on a variety of issues important to New York City is still unknown, said the mayor.
"We’re about to find out who Donald Trump is. He’s never held public office. I think we can all agree – some of the things he pledged to do are just not going to happen. So he’s going to have to make a series of choices. And he’s going to learn from experiences — every one of us does in executive office — what’s really possible," said de Blasio.
Even though he hasn't fully processed his thoughts on the election, de Blasio pointed out that Clinton won the popular vote. The mayor also said Trump's election hasn't shifted his "fundamental views and my analysis" that the country was headed in a more progressive direction politically due to the issue of income inequality.
"I think there’s a lot more to this election than the initial analysis is pointing out," said de Blasio.
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But the mayor wasn't ready to point out exactly what that was.
Asked if he had spoken to Clinton yet, de Blasio said he was scheduled to speak to her later in the day.
Could he share what he would tell her?
"No," said the mayor.
But there was one question the mayor was happy to share on. Had Trump's election caused him to lose any sleep or become despondent?
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"I’m sleeping fine," said de Blasio. "I think when you are a chief executive, you have to stay steady and you have to recognize there’s any number of potential outcomes."
