Any way you slice it, they say, he’s clueless about economics.
Mayor de Blasio was ridiculed for being out of touch with the law of supply and demand Thursday after he attacked Domino’s on Twitter for delivering $30 pies to New Year’s revelers in Times Square.
“Just curious, what was the cost of a hotel room 2 weeks before and after the NYE celebration,” one commenter, Sandpit Nostep, asked in a reply tweet.
Another observer slammed, “Check the prices at a movie theater or baseball game, or are you not that plugged into the life of the common man?”
Hizzoner’s Wednesday afternoon tweet claiming the “corporate chain exploited” revelers drew nearly 5,000 responses over 24 hours.
“Wait…people pay a premium? In midtown Manhattan? On a holiday?!” Brooklyn resident Sean Michael Bern quipped sarcastically.
“I came to make fun of you but everyone beat me too it,” Twitter user Douglas Henderson added.
On Wednesday, the mayor tweeted a screenshot of a Post story about Domino’s jacking up prices to $30 per pizza — more than double the price of a regular large cheese pie — in Midtown during the ball-dropping festivities.
“To the thousands who came to Times Square last night to ring in 2020, I’m sorry this corporate chain exploited you — stick it to them by patronizing one of our fantastic LOCAL pizzerias,” Hizzoner wrote.
The tweet had attracted nearly 5,000 comments and just 300 retweets Thursday as many people wondering why the mayor was so cheesed off over basic capitalism.
Others pointed out the same price-boosting technique happens at Citi Field and Yankee Stadium.
City Hall defended De Blasio amid the flood of negative comments, saying he’s a crusader for the pizza-munching masses.
“Domino’s put profit before people and took advantage of a time-treasured tradition,” said City Hall spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein. “New Yorkers elected a mayor who isn’t afraid to stand up to corporate greed. He’ll always use his platform to fight for the people.”
Franchise owners of the Domino’s on 40th Street and Seventh Avenue, which hawked the pricey pies, didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
A corporate spokeswoman for the restaurant also didn’t return a request for comment.
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