Overview
- During CNN’s Times Square broadcast just after midnight, Cohen called Adams’ four-year term “chaotic” and “horrible” and told him to “go off into the sunset.”
- Anderson Cooper and B. J. Novak attempted to rein in the segment as Cohen, holding a shot glass, continued his critique on live TV.
- Cohen later posted that he and Cooper were “a tad overserved,” acknowledging he had been drinking during the show.
- Adams responded to the viral clip with a joking retort, telling the New York Post, “I have two letters for him: AA.”
- The remarks came as Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York City’s new mayor, and Cohen offered only a sarcastic nod to Adams’ rat-mitigation efforts.