New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to be America’s president, but the folks who know him best seem to think it’s a really bad idea.

One New Yorker, Tita Concepcion, contends the problems are so bad with the city’s public housing department and de Blasio’s administration is so unresponsive, she was forced to travel across the country to Sioux City to confront the mayor about his failures.

Grace Rauh, political reporter for NY1, followed de Blasio on the recent trips to Iowa and South Carolina, highlighting the steady stream of hypocrisy that’s becoming the overarching theme of his campaign.

“Tina Concepcion live in public housing in New York and came all the way to Sioux City to confront Mayor de Blasio about the problems at @NYCHA,” Rauh posted to Twitter Saturday. “New Yorkers, if you want some face time with your mayor, he’ll be in South Carolina today and tomorrow morning.”

Concepcion isn’t the only New Yorker frustrated with the mayor’s busy schedule, or his lack of leadership.

“I think this gets to the heart of why New Yorkers are so angered by de Blasio’s campaign,” Brooke Rogers wrote, retweeting Rauh. “We have so many problems in this city, and our mayor, who has done a spectacular job of either ignoring those problems or making them worse, thinks he should be president.”

Other posts from Rauh and others showed the mayor speaking to less than two dozen members of the South Carolina Democratic Party Black Caucus, which were essentially the folks who stayed around after a previously scheduled event with a different Democrat running for president: Andrew Yang.

De Blasio later met with the mayor of Orangeburg, South Carolina for some grub at Dukes Bar-B-Que, where a former NYPD officer who retired to South Carolina heckled with taunts to go back to New York City.

“You can’t fix the country until you fix the city,” the man shouted as de Blasio ducked inside, trailed by his campaign camera crew.

Once inside, de Blasio helped himself to a heaping helping of southern classics, served in Styrofoam cups and plates he has banned New Yorkers from using.

“As the mayor talks about his record in New York as he campaigns in South Carolina, he has so far not mentioned his Styrofoam ban,” Rauh posted, along with a picture of the mayor at the buffet.

On Sunday morning, de Blasio preached at the Ebenezer AME Church in Charleston, where he was referred to as “Bill de Bless-io.”

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The busy two state jaunt is likely only the first of many that will draw de Blasio’s time and attention away from New York’s plethora of problems, a reality that’s certainly not lost on his critics.

“As I head back to New York after covering de Blasio’s first presidential campaign trip, the reality of what this campaign will mean for him and New York is starting to sink in,” Rauh wrote. “He will most likely be gone every weekend and frequently during the week too.”

“The pace of a presidential campaign is grueling,” she posted. “Will he be resting up when he’s back in New York?”