GQ

Adams dropped out of the New York City mayoral race and will leave office under a cloud, thanks to a now-dismissed federal corruption case that dogged his administration for months. But you’d never know that from his sporting attitude on a recent afternoon at his official residence, where he enjoyed a cigar and mused on his love of different cultures, what Andrew Cuomo and “social media influencer” Zohran Mamdani could do in office, and the origin story of his “all my haters become my waiters” aphorism.