In “Colbert Slams Mayor Eric Adams On Video—From the Future,” comedian Stephen Colbert expands on a 2013 topical segment of political predictions at the end of “The Colbert Report” about an unknown New York mayoral candidate named “mayor de Blasio.” In a similar style, the host revealed a bit from the future set in 2025, wherein a newer, more unconventional mayor named Eric Adams emerges as the city’s next resident executive. Adams, a retired police captain who became the first Black person elected to the role in November 2021, receives criticism in the sketch over increased fruit prices, as well as defunding the police with $1 billion to divert funds to mental health and social services. The backdrop of the segment features a troupe of law enforcement officers and reporters rushing to “common documents of decency in public places” while a group of seniors criticizes the mayor’s inaction on grocery goods. The sketch aims to send the message that simple solutions do not always exist and leaders always represent the will of the people, challenging the impact of Colbert’s predictions from almost a decade ago.
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