Bill de Blasio is the Mayor of New York, or so we are told. He and often appears disconnected and bored from the day-to-day duties of running America’s largest city. He is so disinterested in the city, in fact, that he has decided to run for president even though nobody else wants him to, including .

This has naturally opened him up to brutal, rampant criticism. There are many, many reasons to roast our gangly city dad for his decision to spend the next several months in other states with cities he doesn’t govern. However, a large number of people have instead decided to forgo the valid criticism and latch onto one of the few ills in this city he is not responsible for: the subway.

Local reporter Dave Colon has been on this since De Blasio first announced a few weeks ago, with a running gag that any verified Twitter user, especially people who live in New York, ought to know better and therefore owe Colon $50 for any “fix the subway” tweets. Dave is .

The latest culprit is someone we perhaps shouldn’t expect any better from, but bears mentioning anyways: the current president’s big boy son and New York City resident, Don Jr.:

Jr. is right, in that de Blasio’s Twitter game is (his major campaign platform, so far as I can tell, is to try and make #ConDon a thing), but he joins a legion of other Twitter checkmarks in dismissing de Blasio by telling him to fix the subway, which is not how New York City works.

Yes, the subway has experienced historic, internationally-covered issues during his tenure as mayor, thanks to decades of and . But the mayor has almost no control over the New York City subway. The subway is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state entity. The MTA’s chairman and CEO is appointed by the governor. The governor appoints the most board seats of any elected official. The state senate approves all of the nominees for the above positions, even those nominated by the mayor. The governor . The governor of New York is Andrew Cuomo, not Bill de Blasio.

To be sure, the mayor plays a very important role in the city’s bus system, which is also operated by the MTA, but requires cooperation with the city Department of Transportation to create bus lanes, build bus stops, and other infrastructure related to the city streets (the fact that all of this is very complicated and confusing is ). The buses , with many routes through key corridors . But slow buses are not an international source of embarrassment for America’s largest city so no one talks about that nearly as much as they should.

There are a lot of sorry affairs about this city for which de Blasio deserves ample blame: , and the affordable housing crisis, the aforementioned failures to speed up buses or keep up with international peer cities in pedestrianizing larger swaths of the city with high foot traffic, and flapping his gums a lot about the climate crisis . By all means, get on his case about any one of those issues if you can even be bothered to care about de Blasio’s existence at all, which I don’t necessarily encourage you to do.

Just don’t tell him to fix the subway. Or else you’ll owe Dave Colon $50.