Mayor Bill de Blasio continued to make excuses on Monday for campaigning in Iowa during the Manhattan blackout — and actually tried to spin the blunder in his favor by claiming his role as a “chief executive” of America’s largest city makes him better than the other White House candidates.

“When you’re chief executive, it doesn’t matter where you are,” de Blasio told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show, after Monday’s New York Post, saying he deserves the boot for being a thousand miles away while New Yorkers sat in the dark, flashed on the screen. “You’re in charge of your team and making sure people are executing the plan.”

“Obviously, the fire department, the police department, [Office of] Emergency Management prepare for situations like this. The important thing was to get the right people in the right place, and folks did follow the plan,” he added.

De Blasio then pointed out that the emergency was resolved within five hours Saturday night without any New Yorker suffering injuries, saying he “was in touch with folks [back in New York by telephone] every step along the way making sure things were happening.”

“The bottom line is I got information and had to make decisions — had to make sure people were doing the right thing and that is something I have to do wherever I am — any chief executive has to do [that],” he said. “And honestly, if you’re chief executive, you understand the world differently than if you were legislator, for example.

“God bless legislators, but I’m responsible every time to make sure that if there is a crisis, [it] is responded to.”

Although de Blasio was shown a copy of Monday’s Post, he wasn’t asked to directly address the paper’s call for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to remove him from office “for the good of the city.” Hizzoner was 1,075 miles away at an auto workers’ union hall in Waterloo, Iowa, when the lights went out on Broadway and in other parts of Manhattan.

The Post also cited a laundry list of other failures under his watch at City Hall, including a rising homeless population and crises at the New York City Housing Authority, the Department of Education and the Administration for Children’s Services.

De Blasio has promised a full review of the blackout, which struck on the 42nd anniversary and nearly to the hour of the 1977 blackout that affected the entire city.