Veterans Day Parade Draws Trump and His New York Rivals: Cuomo and de Blasio

President Trump has moved his legal residence to Florida, but he is still in a New York state of mind.

The Republican president will be in Manhattan Monday to give a speech in Madison Square Park to kick off the Veterans Day parade, which will then proceed up Fifth Avenue. Both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are expected to march, their aides said. How will the three interact?

Mr. Trump spent the last two weeks tweeting insults at the Democratic leaders of the state and city he has long called home, starting when the president said he would relocate to the Sunshine State because he has been “treated very badly” by political leaders.

“Good riddance,” Mr. Cuomo told reporters the next day. The governor at first said that the president didn’t pay any local taxes, then when pushed about how he knew that, said he was speculating. He said he believed Mr. Trump was leaving because Manhattan prosecutors are trying to subpoena copies of Mr. Trump’s tax returns. The president’s lawyers are challenging the subpoena in court.

The president then tweeted about the state’s tax climate, scrutiny from prosecutors (which he pinned on Mr. Cuomo) and the coming release of hundreds of prisoners awaiting trial as a result of changes to New York’s bail requirements. The governor dismissed the president’s grumbling as “deflections” and said he has lowered state taxes.

Mr. de Blasio has been a consistent critic of Mr. Trump, and ridiculed him as “Con Don” during his abortive attempt to win the Democratic nomination for president. Mr. Cuomo hasn’t; he met with Mr. Trump between his election and inauguration, and for a year avoided criticizing him by name.

“I went out of my way numerous times to attempt to work with President Trump,” Mr. Cuomo said Wednesday, speaking to reporters on a highway overpass. “You know what New York got back from Trump? Nothing, nada, goose egg.”

Whatever their frustrations, Messrs. Cuomo and de Blasio said the Veterans Day parade shouldn’t be politicized. The best chance of that happening is if the men don’t talk.

TISH’S PAYMENTS: New York state Attorney General Letitia James’s campaign committee directed more than $36,000 to a Brooklyn hairstylist and brand manager during and after her successful election bid last year, campaign-finance filings show.

Ms. James, a Democrat, made the campaign payments to Iyesata Marsh starting in May of last year and ending this February. The campaign paid $22,000 to use Ms. Marsh’s Brooklyn studio as a campaign office for the last four months of the campaign.

A spokeswoman for the James campaign said that the payments to Ms. Marsh were for professional campaign services, and that she worked as an event manager. In an interview, Ms. Marsh said she never styled Ms. James’s hair but declined to provide specific details on what she did.

ON THE AIR FOR ROADS: A coalition led by state contracting groups has shifted its pitch for more road funding to focus on urban needs in a pair of advertisements set to hit the airwaves this week.

The ad campaign by Rebuild NY Now comes as state lawmakers consider the next five-year capital plan from the New York State Department of Transportation. Usually, upstate legislators would use the DOT capital plan for leverage as downstate lawmakers pushed for a new capital plan for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

“Critical infrastructure in urban communities is in even worse shape,” says one video, which is part of a six-figure radio, television and digital-advertising effort set to launch Tuesday.

The strategy change reflects the new balance of power in Albany: Democrats from downstate areas control both the state Assembly and Senate. In the state Senate, the upstate Democrats represent urban areas—including Sen. Tim Kennedy, a Democrat from Buffalo who chairs the chamber’s transportation committee.

THE QUESTION: Neither President Trump nor his predecessor, Barack Obama, served in the military. Who are the other commanders in chief who never wore a uniform?

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THE LAST ANSWER: While Buffalo is New York’s second most populous city, several towns on Long Island are home to more residents. They include Hempstead, Brookhaven, Islip and Oyster Bay.