Forget about Wisconsin. Mayor de Blasio is America’s cheesehead.
Hizzoner used his weekly radio show to plug a 125-year-old cheese shop owned by actor Tony Danza — a public endorsement that mirrored that of senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway for Ivanka Trump’s products.
An exasperated Danza called into the WNYC program to ask the mayor about skyrocketing commercial rents driving out long-running businesses. But all De Blasio could think about was mozzarella.
“I want to just commend you. I tried some of your smoked mozzarella. Can I do an on-air endorsement?” the mayor said.
“Tony Danza’s smoked mozzarella at his shop in Little Italy — go there right now, New York City,”
de Blasio added. “I’m a grandson of Neapolitans, so I know something about smoked mozzarella.”
De Blasio’s cheese slobbering surprised host Brian Lehrer, who asked if this was the mayor’s “Kellyanne Conway” moment of product endorsement.
“I’m not plugging a product,” de Blasio said. “I am talking about our patrimony as New Yorkers.”
Despite the plug, De Blasio strung Danza out like a piece of smoked cheese. He said there was little that could be done to lower commercial rents.
But the promotion worked. Workers at Danza’s Alleva Cheese store on Grand Street told The Post the smoked mozzarella sold out Friday afternoon, just hours after de Blasio’s rave review aired.
Conway took heat last month for telling Fox News viewers to “Go buy Ivanka’s stuff,” after Nordstrom stopped carrying the clothing line of President Trump’s daughter.
The director of the Office of Government Ethics advised that Conway violated federal rules by endorsing Ivanka’s clothing line.
The White House said she acted “inadvertently” and did not discipline her.