Overview
- Cohen launched into the critique just after midnight on Jan. 1 during CNN’s New Year’s Eve special with Anderson Cooper and B. J. Novak.
- He labeled Eric Adams’ term “chaotic” and “horrible,” claimed “he got his pardons,” and made sarcastic remarks about rats as his co-hosts tried to cut him off.
- Adams responded on X calling it “another sloppy drunken rant,” urged Cohen to join Alcoholics Anonymous, and said public intoxication is a disease.
- Cohen later posted on Instagram that he had “a ball” and acknowledged he and Cooper were “a tad overserved (by me).”
- Coverage notes Adams was not pardoned; the Justice Department dismissed federal corruption charges in 2025 as Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York City’s new mayor.