In a political stunt to gain some national attention, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio skipped out on his duties Friday to fly to Germany in protest of Donald Trump. He will speak at a rally on Saturday, where he hopes to get some good footage to play in future campaign ads.

Meanwhile, the city he is supposed to run is in the middle of a crisis, after an NYPD officer was assassinated in the Bronx this week. The Mayor’s trip also coincides with the swearing in ceremony of over 500 new NYPD officers, who will not have the opportunity to be welcomed by De Blasio.

The Mayor of New York is sending a clear message that he has his eyes set on bigger things. He is forgoing his responsibilities to help set the stage for a bigger campaign, possibly the presidential one in 2020.

Dan Bongino, former NYPD officer and member of the secret service, joined Fox News on Friday to discuss the matter. Of De Blasio, he remarked, “the cops I know can’t stand De Blasio,” and, “have turned their backs on him.” Leaving the country now is just another way the mayor is slighting his own police force.

Forgoing your local constituents to campaign on a national level is a very risky move, and it didn’t turn out well for De Blasio’s neighbor in Jersey, Governor Chris Christie, who has become a laughingstock in his state after a recent government shutdown. Christie, a Republican primary candidate in the recent presidential election, spent most of 2016 out of state, forgoing his responsibilities as governor. His approval rating faceplanted, and now he is in the news more often as a meme than as a responsible governor.

De Blasio risks the same thing happening in NYC, which would be loads of fun to watch transpire. The potential Democratic nominee would face an uphill battle to a nomination, with figures like former VP Joe Biden, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, all having more national notoriety than the mayor, and various celebrities teasing campaigns.

The most ironic part of the trip is that most protesters have many bigger priorities than Donald Trump. They are anti-capitalism, anti-globalism, and straight up anarchists, but haven’t been portraying an anti-Trump message, unlike what the Leftist media has been trying to portray. De Blasio is trying to spin these protests in his favor, a decision that might look good on camera, but in real life has no merits.

Having already lost the favor of the police force, De Blasio is on a slippery slope, and an emergency trip to protest our President doing his job is not one of his best decisions. I’m not complaining, because it’s fun to watch our Democratic politicians make a fool of themselves, but if De Blasio were smart he’d get back to focusing on what really matters, the city he was elected to run.