Adams wears his heart on his … hands? Inside the mayor’s familiar, peculiar gesture
The hand heart: It’s not just for sorority girls’ Instagram pics anymore.
New York City Mayo🉐r Eric Adams has commandeered the cringey photo pose for himself, flashing it nearly every time the camera lens has turned his way this summ🅰er.
His fascination with the gesture — in which two people make a rough “C” with their ൲fingers, then hold them against each other to form an improvis🌌ed heart — has in turn fascinated the public.
For most of the first 18 months of his term, the mayor went 🧸with🌜 the more traditional thumbs-up pose,
But June 6, Adams made a hand heart with another person at the New York City Youth Leadership Council Summit, the outlet sai🌄d.
And he hasn’t looked back since.
Hizzoner has made hand hearts with attendees at official events, a meeting with rap mogul Diddy and even an NYPD robot that could not reciprocate because it has no arms, hands or fingers — which left the mayor in an awkward pose in which he seemed to be sinking a claw into the machine’s flank.
The pose hasn’t particularly caught on elsewhere among other leading mayoral pols, at least yet.
