Andy Cohen tore into former NYC Mayor Eric Adams minutes after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square on Thursday morning — as his co-host Anderson Cooper passively failed to stop the wild rant.
The Emmy-winning Bravo host, 57, didn’t mince words in his on-air sendoff message over Adams’ “horrible” four-year term, telling the now-jobless Democrat to “go off in the sunset.”
“I’d like to say, watching the final moments of Mayor Adams’ chaotic, horrible…,” Cohen started to say during a segment on CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live.”
Cooper and “The Office” star BJ Novak both tried to calm down the rambling Cohen as he held a shot glass while pouring out his disdain for the 65-year-old Adams.
“I just want to say, I mean he’s got his pardons, he’s pardoned,” Cohen incorrectly spewed, seemingly referring to Adams’ federal corruption charges being dismissed by a federal judge “with prejudice” back in April.
“Great, you got your pardons, go off in the sunset. We’ll, we’ll fiddle with what we have, with what you left us with.”
Novak suggested Cohen should be “cut off” as Cohen continued his rant on CNN, which had once banned drinking on-air during New Year’s festivities.
An anxious-looking Cooper put his arm around his longtime co-host to try to de-escalate the rant to no avail, while Novak said that “he can’t help himself.”
“You pardoned your way through four years, and all the clubs, we’ll see you there,” Cohen said directly into the camera.
“I just want to say, goodbye, Mayor Adams, you did it, you did it, you did it, didn’t you?”
Cohen sarcastically congratulated the former mayor for recently implementing the brand new Office of Rodent Mitigation through an executive order in December.
“But I will say this, I think he may have dented the rat population,” Cohen snarked.
“I think he got rid of some of the rats, but isn’t that a metaphor of sorts?” Cohen added. “Let’s call it as it is, honestly.
“It is 2026 and there are less rats,” he said, possibly digging at Adams before taking a sip of his drink.
As the clock struck midnight, Adams metaphorically handed the Gracie Mansion keys to Democrat-Socialist Zohran Mamdani, who was sworn-in as mayorby NY Attorney General Letitia James
The private ceremony was held below City Hall Park in a grand, abandoned old subway stop on Thursday morning.
Mamdani, 34, was sworn in on a Quran held by his wife, artist Rama Duwaji.
The chaotic CNN show, which is broadcast live from Midtown Manhattan, has faced scrutiny in previous years over its personalities’ on-air drinking.
The outlet infamously placed an alcohol ban on on-air talent besides Cooper and Cohen, blaming it on former anchor Don Lemon, who was noticeably tipsy and boozy during the previous New Year’s Eve festivities.
During the chaotic 2022 New Year’s celebration, Cohen launched into a heated rant on Adam’s predecessor Bill de Blasio.
Cohen ripped into the towering former mayor when he left office in 2022, telling de Blasio to “do his victory lap dance after four years as the crappiest term of the mayor of New York.
“The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been. So, sayonara sucker!” Cohen said.
The Bravo host later said that he “did not recall” going on his anti-de Blasio rant because of all the drinking he did.
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