Sliwa won’t say see-ya.
GOP mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa served up the chin-flicking “f–k outta here” gesture Monday to anyone looking to bribe him out of the race for City Hall — as pressure mounts for him to follow Eric Adams’ exit.
During a media blitz, the Guardian Angels founder again accused unnamed well-heeled New Yorkers of floating shady bids to get him to drop his campaign, claiming he’s gotten several millions of dollars in offers.
“Seven different people, a total of $10 million when you bifurcate it out over the years,” he told Fox5.
“Car, Jeep, chauffeur, headquarters to operate out of, helping the Guardian Angels, helping animal welfare – and you know something? If you’re watching out there,” he said, giving a vulgar chin flick, “you can’t bribe me, buy me, lease me, I’m not for sale.”
But despite Sliwa’s vocal defiance, some Big Apple real estate moguls still huddled on a call Sunday, frantically scheming ways to get him to move aside and create a two-way race between lefty front-runner Democrat Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, sources told The Post.
Business bigwigs believe there’s a chance Sliwa could budge — as does President Trump, who called billionaire John Catsimatidis on Sunday to turn the screws on his red-bereted friend, sources said.
But politicos joined the cat-loving Sliwa in casting doubt on the prospects.
“He’ll never f—ing drop,” one source with knowledge said.
“(Catsimatidis) can try for him and Trump thinks he can… There’s no question the president is putting pressure on him,” the source said.
“Curtis will be happy living a 200-square-foot apartment with 1,000 cats. He doesn’t want the money.”
The pressure campaign for Sliwa to end his mayoral bid began months before Adams — the fourth-place-polling incumbent — bowed to reality and officially dropped his independent re-election operation Sunday.
Both Adams and Sliwa have faced public and behind-the-scenes calls to drop out because polls showed Cuomo, who is running as an independent, has the best chance of thwarting the unapologetic socialist Mamdani from becoming mayor.
But Sliwa roundly rejected the pleas, viewing his candidacy as Republicans’ best chance to win the mayoralty in two decades.
He also noted, during an Upper West Side news conference Monday, that Cuomo already came out the big loser in the Democratic primary against Mamdani in June.
The humiliating loss for Cuomo briefly caused chatter among Big Apple heavyweights, such as billionaire hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, that Adams would be the best anti-Mamdani candidate.
Ackman and other bigs have since changed their tune as polls showed Cuomo faring better than Adams in a head-to-head race against Mamdani.
“Imagine how ridiculous I would look today if I had dropped out for Eric Adams. What a fool, a Pagliacci, the clown in the opera, if I’d dropped out for him,” Sliwa sneered.
Republican consultant Bill O’Reilly said Sliwa stepping aside may well be the best chance to forestall Mamdani, but noted the candidate has worked decades to achieve his current position.
“It may be too much to ask,” O’Reilly said.
The latest polling has Sliwa in a distant third with 11%, compared to Mamdani’s 47% and Cuomo’s 29%.
Trump, in a Truth Social post Monday, avoided mentioning Sliwa or Cuomo, instead railing against Mamdani, inaccurately calling him a communist — and contending he’ll be “one of the best things to ever happen to our great Republican Party.”
“He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City,” Trump posted. “Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises.”
Sliwa accused Adams of already receiving a bailout from Trump in the form of his controversially dismissed corruption case.
He didn’t hold back on his low view of the soon-to-depart mayor.
“I’m not sitting shiva for Eric Adams,” he said. He should have been in jail with (former Sen.) Bobby Menendez. He was a crook.”
— Additional reporting by Matthew Fischetti