Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani claims he’s not a horse psychologist…or is he?
In an television appearance Tuesday morning on Good Day New York, Giuliani defended the city’s carriage horse industry that Mayor de Blasio has vowed to ban and spoke from the perspective of a work horse.
“Horses that have been bred to work, when you put them out on the farm, they die,” he told co-anchor Greg Kelly. “They like to work. If we take these horses, what are we gonna put them on food stamps? They might not want the food stamps, they’re gonna want to work.”
“Look, I’m not a horse psychologist, nobody is, but the horses are happy as far as you can tell and the horse is bred for this kind of work,” Giuliani added.
The horses at the center of the passionate fight may not be able to speak on their own behalf, but Giuliani appeared willing to articulate their perspective.
“I’m a horse that’s bred to work. If you stop me from working, I’m gonna get depressed,” he said.
Giuliani criticized the new mayor for taking too long to make appointments in his administration. He also identified some tactical errors — like pushing for a tax on the wealthy that’s controlled by Albany. But the two-term Republican mayor said he believed de Blasio was executing his agenda, and even threw him a bone on criticism of chronic lateness.
“That’s where you give him some time,” he said. “He hasn’t been an executive before. Part of being an executive is being on time because if you’re not on time, the whole operation starts to fall apart, so maybe you learn that while you’re on the job.”
It was the second time in two days that Giuliani took to the airwaves to share his opinion of the city’s new leadership, after months of keeping mum on de Blasio’s job performance.
“The city was on a very good course, and that needs to be maintained and improved on, and he’s kind of turned it around,” Giuliani
on WNYM-AM, to Republican radio host John Catsimatidis, who waged his own self-funded campaign for mayor last year.
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