It is not something Mayor Bibb says he has had to do in Cleveland. The idea has been subject of much online disinformation, but for Mayor Bibb it is not “some weird conspiracy theory”, but something “pretty simple”. Under Mayor Bibb, Cleveland has taken legal action against attempts by the Trump administration to withhold federal grants to municipalities as a way of pressuring them to change gender and equalities policies. He told LGC: “At the end of the day, not only am I the mayor of Cleveland, but I am the policy leader of the city and the moral leader of the city. “Who knows,” Mayor Bibb replies.