"My life is the life that Dr. King was talking about when he says, he had a dream, I'm living that dream ...," Mayor Eric Adams said.

Hizzoner likened himself to Martin Luther King Jr. on Tuesday as he defended bailing on events commemorating the civil rights icon to trek Washington, DC, to hail the new chief. He claimed MLK, like himself, would have set “partisan politics” aside to show support for the incoming president.