If you had "Michael Cohen and Donald Trump become friends again" on your 2026 bingo card, congratulations, you absolute lunatic. Nobody saw this coming, and yet here we are.
As Trending Politics reported, Trump's former personal attorney and professional bridge burner says the two men have quietly begun patching things up after one of the most spectacular public feuds in modern political history. You know, the feud where Cohen testified against Trump in the New York hush money trial, went to prison for three years, and spent every waking moment on cable news trashing his old boss. That feud.
Cohen, speaking on 77 WABC's "Cats & Cosby" show, said the whole thing kicked off about six months ago when a mysterious "White House friend and an insider" texted him with a message from Trump. Cohen refused to name the go-between but said the intermediary "expressed to me the president's genuine empathy for the hell that I was being dragged through, yet again, and I deeply appreciated that text." Nothing says presidential diplomacy quite like having a buddy slide into someone's DMs on your behalf.
Cohen told CNN on Monday that his relationship with Trump is now "cordial and growing," which is the kind of language people use when describing a houseplant they haven't killed yet.
"I thanked him, expressed my sincere hope that this long exhausting feud between the two of us could finally end, and what was, I found, even more interesting is that he replied almost immediately, agreeing that it was actually time for us to meet," Cohen said, adding he was "very surprised" by the text. For the record, the face to face meeting has not actually happened yet, so we are still in the texting phase of this political romance.
Cohen got poetic about the moment, saying he texted Trump: "We both knew the cost of this war," and that "in that moment, the ice between us, it didn't just melt, it broke, and that's how it all happened." Somewhere a Hallmark writer just shed a single tear.
Cohen also said Trump sympathized with what he described as a "media onslaught" from the political left. "The president knew exactly what it felt like to be at the center of that kind of partisan target practice, plain and simple," Cohen said. Nothing bonds two guys like a shared persecution complex.
Perhaps the most interesting part is what Cohen traced the reconciliation back to. In a January Substack post, he claimed he "felt pressured and coerced" by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg "to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government's desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump." That is a fairly significant accusation from the guy who was the star witness.
Cohen says he hopes "to return to the White House for a one-on-one visit in the next few weeks." CNN reported it reached out to the White House for comment. The political universe continues to be the most unhinged reality show ever produced, and nobody is getting voted off the island.
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