You can call him Hizzoner, but you can’t make him run.
Lloyd Blankfein said he might want to trade in Goldman Sachs for Gracie Mansion.
The Wall Street bank CEO didn’t rule out a political future on Tuesday during a question-and-answer sessions in Manhattan — as questions about the length of his tenure atop the bank have risen to a fever pitch.
“I would be the mayor of New York City, but I don’t know if I’d run for mayor of New York City,” Blankfein, 63, said at the Economic Club of New York.
The comments by the bearded banker aren’t his first foray into politics.
Last year, Blankfein took to Twitter to criticize policies by President Trump, including his pulling out of the Paris environmental agreement and calling African countries “sh—holes.”
But the CEO has slowed his political criticism this year. He last mentioned Trump in a Jan. 26 tweet where he appeared to have found common ground on trade.
The Bronx native has mused about a political future previously.
“By some freakish reason, if I thought there was a good opportunity, and I could make a difference and do something good, of course I would,” he told Charlie Rose in 2014.
Blankfein, who has led Goldman Sachs since 2007, has been rumored to be on his way out by the end of the year, and to be replaced by David Solomon, a part-time DJ who’s also the bank’s chief operating officer.
At the Q&A session, the interviewer, Bloomberg Editor in Chief John Micklethwait, didn’t ask any questions about succession, but did get the CEO to comment on the high cost of living.
“I tend not to worry about New York as long as they don’t keep making it so very expensive to be here versus very other attractive places,” he said.
“If I advocated moving out of New York, it would really hurt my chances,” he added.