"I'm Bill DeBlasio. I've always been Bill DeBlasio, he said from Florida. I never once said I was the mayor. [The journalist] never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion. I could have corrected him, he added. It was all in good fun. I never thought it would make it to print."
"Using ChatGPT to help craft his reply, he criticized Mamdani's plans as unlikely to generate the revenue he has promised, words that the journalist then used to write an explosive news piece that the ex-mayor rages was entirely false and fabricated."
"I want to be 100% clear:The story in the Times of London is entirely false and fabricated.It was just brought to my attention and I'm appalled.I never spoke to that reporter and never said those things. Those quotes aren't mine, don't reflect my views. https://t.co/I65e8UV6tm Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) October 28, 2025"
A Times of London journalist emailed what they thought was the former New York mayor; the message instead reached Long Island wine importer Bill DeBlasio. DeBlasio replied, using ChatGPT to help craft comments critical of mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani's revenue plans. The journalist published those remarks attributing them to the former mayor, prompting a retraction when the outlet discovered the mistake and said the reporter had been misled. The New York Times characterized the Long Island man as an impersonator, a label he rejected while insisting he never claimed to be the mayor.
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