#De Blasio plans to taunt Trump despite need for federal funds

Mayor de Blasio warned Wednesday that 22,000 city workers will lose their jobs without a much-needed “federal stimulus” — while secretly planning to taunt the president, who controls much of those funds, with an in-your-face message outside Trump Tower.

De Blasio said massive, across-the-board layoffs were “the only way” to deal with the devastating impact of the coronavirus crisis on the Big Apple’s budget.

“Closing the $1 billion gap would mean laying off 22,000 city employees, which is a staggering number,” de Blasio said during his daily press briefing from City Hall.

Hizzoner noted that “for weeks and weeks, we all had the hope that there would be a federal stimulus plan by now.”

“It’s quite clear that’s not happening,” he added.

Meanwhile, The Post has learned, de Blasio privately authorized the painting of “BLACK LIVES MATTER” in giant, yellow letters on Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets — directly in front of Trump Tower.

“Obviously he is doing it to antagonize the president,” a source said.

“This is what he is concerned about while the city burns. What an amateur politician.”

De Blasio’s approach appears to echo the “F–k you, pay me” demand repeated by Ray Liotta’s character in the classic, 1995 mafia movie “Goodfellas,” not to mention the sign that a Times Square beggar, Daniel Kimery, used to gain infamy in 2015, when his vulgar technique was revealed by The Post.

“BLACK LIVES MATTER” has already been painted on some city streets, but de Blasio’s plan would obviously direct the message toward Trump, who has a lavish, triplex penthouse in his eponymous Midtown skyscraper and stays there when he’s in town.

It also echoes the action of Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had the slogan stenciled on a road leading to the White House earlier this month.

De Blasio hatched his plan in the wake of that move and following a June 7 meeting with black community leaders and activists, including the Rev. Kevin McCall and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, sources said.

“The mayor doesn’t think Black Lives Matter is a stunt. Nor does he think it is just a social issue,” de Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said when asked why de Blasio would seek to antagonize the one man who could open the flow of federal funds to the Big Apple.

“The request to paint BLM on streets throughout the city came from leaders within the movement. The president needs this helpful reminder.”

The Midtown message is set to be painted before the July 4 weekend and is one of at least seven planned across all five boroughs, sources said.

The street embellishment spree comes amid an alarming surge in gun violence and widespread complaints about illegal fireworks, and follows a series of protests, riots and looting sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.