New York Post

Donald gets us in a jam

Midtown streets will be bumper-to-Trumper

- By LARRY CELONA and SHAWN COHEN Additional reporting by Jaclyn Weiner and Li a Eustachewi­ch

President Trump’s homecoming next week will create a traffic apocalypse in the Big Apple — and officials are warning drivers to stay off the roads.

At his golf club in Bedminster, NJ, Friday, the president — who has spent most of his 17-day “working vacation” at his Jersey retreat — addressed the “disruption” his visit might cause.

“I stay out of Manhattan because it’s so disruptive to go to Manhattan,” Trump said. “Whenever a president came in, it was very disruptive — and I think I’m probably more disruptive than any of them.”

Air Force One will arrive Monday night at JFK Airport from Washington, DC, after Trump attends a “very important meeting” in the capital.

Sources said a motorcade will then take the president the 16 miles to Trump Tower, in which he has yet to set foot since taking office.

Fifth Avenue will remain open to traffic during Trump’s stay, but the area around the skyscraper will be under extremely tight NYPD and Secret Service security.

Trucks traveling east on 56th Street between Sixth and Fifth avenues will be checked at Sixth by federal agents with bomb-sniffing K9 dogs. Some side streets will also be closed for the duration of the visit.

Snipers and “arrest” teams will also be on standby, sources said.

A rally in support of saving ObamaCare is scheduled outside Trump Tower for Sunday evening, and opponents of the president’s immigratio­n policies are planning to protest Tuesday.

Trump has visited his NYC hometown only once since he was inaugurate­d — for a May event at the Intrepid Museum.

He plans to spend Tuesday holed up at the Fifth Avenue tower for meetings. On Wednesday, he will depart again for Bedminster for the remainder of his vacation.

On Brian Lehrer’s WNYC radio show Friday, Mayor de Blasio said, “If [Trump] doesn’t move around a lot, it particular­ly makes it a little bit easier. But . . . just avoid that part of Midtown for your own sanity.”

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