‘President’ de Blasio slammed by Letitia James, Pod Save America crowd

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential bid got roundly rejected by state Attorney General Letitia James and a crowd of 3,000 jeering liberals during a podcast taping in his home borough of Brooklyn.

When asked to rate her excitement over de Blasio’s campaign on a scale of one to 10, James just smiled and waved as the audience in the sold-out Kings Theatre erupted in laughter Thursday night.

“No, seriously. Listen, we need a mayor who is going to be on the job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” she said to cheers.

James then led the politically progressive fans of “Pod Save America” in a rousing call-and-response denunciation of de Blasio and his White House dreams.

“And so I ask the question: Has the crisis in affordable housing been addressed?” she asked.

“No!” the audience roared.

“Has income inequality been addressed?”

“No!”

“Equal pay for equal work?”

“No!”

“How about cyclists who unfortunately are dying on our streets as a result of crashes — has that been addressed?”

“No!”

“Environmental issues — has that been addressed”

“No!”

James — who succeeded de Blasio as the city’s public advocate — then asked, “So what is the legacy? What are you running on?”

“Obviously, listen, he could run…I understand that. But the question is why? Porque? Like, what’s up?” she said.

When James mischievously added, “But he’s a friend,” podcast co-host Tommy Vietor cracked up and buried his face in his hand as the audience exploded.

Earlier in the 90-minute show, the crowd also responded with a chorus of boos when co-host Jon Lovett brought up de Blasio’s campaign kickoff announcement earlier in the day.

“Can we get a broom and a dustpan? There are chunks of Bill de Blasio all over this stage,” Lovett joked.

Also Thursday, James’ successor as public advocate, Jumaane Williams, said de Blasio had scored a “net negative” as mayor, telling Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” that “if [he’s] going to push out, ‘I’m going to do for the nation what I did for New York City,’ as of right now, to me that’s a tough sell because I don’t want to see that happen.”