Overview
- Just after midnight in Times Square, Cohen called Adams’ term “chaotic” and “horrible” and told him to ride off “into the sunset.”
- Anderson Cooper and B.J. Novak tried to cut off or defuse the remarks as Cohen pressed on during the live segment.
- Cohen sarcastically credited Adams for reducing rats, saying there were “less rats,” prompting Novak to correct him to “fewer.”
- The moment spread widely online, unfolding as Zohran Mamdani was being sworn in as New York City’s new mayor.
- Cohen later said on Instagram he was “a tad overserved,” while Adams responded to the rant by telling the New York Post, “I have two letters for him: AA.”