Michael Cohen once called Trump a con man and a cheat. Now he’s back to calling his ex-boss ‘sir.’

Anthony L. Fisher Fri, August 21, 2026 at 12:47 PM UTC

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This was Michael Cohen’s big moment. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer/fixer turned nemesis/witness for the prosecution has apparently turned the page on his stint as a #Resistance figure and made amends with the man who is the only reason most people know Cohen’s name in the first place.

Cohen, who testified against Trump in the latter’s 2024 New York “hush money” trial, hyped the previously recorded sit-down with a post on his Substack titled “The Impossible Reunion” and even previewed the discussion with a livestream Thursday afternoon as a must-hear interview between the two convicted felons.

“Loyalty doesn’t mean pretending someone never hurt you. Forgiveness doesn’t mean surrendering your principles. Reconciliation doesn’t mean rewriting history. It means deciding that your history doesn’t have to end with your worst chapter. And frankly, it takes far more courage to extend a hand across a divide than it does to throw stones from behind a keyboard,” Cohen wrote.

But in the end, it was a whole lot of nothing. The conversation reportedly lasted 40 minutes, but Cohen has released only 15 minutes so far — first on New York’s WABC-AM radio and later on Cohen’s podcast and Substack. The rest is set to be rolled out in a similar fashion Sunday.

The big show began with a lengthy rant against the news media and unnamed partisan bogeymen on both the left and right, whom Cohen alleged were only interested in stirring up “rage bait.” Then came a jarring pivot to a curiously infomercial-like interview with a tech company boss. Then, finally, Cohen rewarded listeners with the much-hyped interview.

In his 2020 memoir, Cohen called Trump “a cheat, a mobster, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.” On Thursday, however, he was back to calling Trump “sir.”

Since 2018, Cohen has been a fixture on TV, radio and podcasts, willing to spill the beans on Trump’s unsavory dealings that he personally enabled. But the interview portion that aired Thursday was so vapid and backslapping that it seemed to undermine its apparent purpose — to rehabilitate Cohen among the MAGA faithful.

Whatever else you may think about Trump, he’s an accomplished showman. So he’d probably recognize that Cohen’s show was an absolute dud. This obsequious slobberfest won’t buy Cohen a return to Trump’s inner circle, but it did very likely end his relevance to anyone else.

Of all the indignities Cohen has suffered on behalf of Trump, that he couldn’t even get Trump to give him a good soundbite for this reunion show must rank high among them.

Cohen segued into a logic-challenged rant against the media for reporting Trump’s historically atrocious approval ratings. Cohen argued that because Trump isn’t running for a third term, his poll numbers are irrelevant.

“CNN, MS NOW and the other left-leaning outlets … constantly talking about you being underwater with favorability numbers, Mr. President. What do you say to these people who keep bringing up polls when you’re not even running for office again? What’s the point?”

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Presidential job approval numbers are not the same as campaign polling numbers. But Cohen most likely knew that already, so let’s move on.

Trump rambled in his typical incessant fashion, praising himself for a great economy and his war with Iran that’s going just super. Cohen asked why the president doesn’t tell Americans how lucky they are “to go to sleep at night with knowledge that there will be no intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile being fired towards the United States.”

This was Trump’s reply:

“So I do tell that. The press doesn’t get it out, and I say it often. I said it the other day at a big rally I had with the police out on Long Island, and we have these unbelievable rallies. The rallies are potentially bigger than ever. I mean, if we did rallies, as an example, if we did rallies now, nobody ever had rallies like this. Their potential, I think, they’re bigger than ever. There’s a great spirit for what’s going on, especially in light of what’s happening with all these crazy theories and policies and lunatics that are running. You have lunatics. They would destroy the country, and they’re being put in the Democrat Party. I think they’ll be wiped out in the election, because the people are too smart to allow that to happen. It’s never worked in a thousand years. That stuff has never worked and is not going to work now. But they’re not even smart people. You know, you watch some of them; half of them can’t even speak properly. So I think we’re doing very well.”

Of all the indignities Cohen has suffered on behalf of Trump, that he couldn’t even get Trump to give him a good soundbite for this reunion show must rank high among them.

Trump bragged about scrapping the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — the multinational nuclear agreement with Iran that the Obama administration negotiated in 2015 — which led Cohen to ask how Iran ended up with 1,000 pounds of “soon to be made nuclear-grade enriched uranium”?

The answer, of course, is that Iran ended up with that much near-weapons-grade uranium precisely because Trump scrapped the agreement that would have prevented it. Now he’s losing a war he foolishly started against that same regime.

The rest of the quarter-hour largely consisted of base insults at various Democrats and outright false claims about how Trump’s tariff war is great for Americans and U.S. business interests.

Ultimately, this was 15 minutes of dull, right-wing radio pablum, made notable only by the fact that a sitting president and his former bag man were conducting it as a kiss-and-make-up reunion. If this preview is any indication, tuning into the rest of the chat on Sunday is a sucker’s bet, as is Cohen’s apparent attempt to win back Trump’s audience.

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