Trump and Former Fixer Michael Cohen Reunite Publicly on Radio Show

President Donald Trump appeared on a radio show hosted by Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney and self-described fixer, in what multiple outlets reported was their first public conversation in about eight years. The interview took place in the United States and was widely reported as occurring around August 20-21, 2026, with Cohen having announced the show earlier, including at a July 13, 2026 news conference in New York. Cohen and Trump had an extensive and well-documented falling out after Cohen became a key witness against Trump, including testimony in Trump's 2024 criminal trial in New York, where Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. In the years following their split, Cohen became a vocal critic of Trump, using terms such as "predator," "conman," and "Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain" to describe his former boss, a shift from earlier characterizing himself as Trump's "attack dog with a law license." Multiple outlets reported that Trump was expected to call into or appear on Cohen's radio show, and that the appearance represented an apparent reconciliation between the two men following years of legal disputes and public antagonism. Cohen described the on-air exchange as the first public conversation between himself and the president in eight years. As of the reporting, it remained unresolved whether Cohen would use the interview to seek a pardon from Trump, a question Cohen declined to directly answer when asked. Reports differ in framing: some characterize the event primarily as a reconciliation or reunion, while others emphasize the adversarial history and unresolved tension underlying the appearance. The exact content and outcome of the conversation beyond the fact that it occurred were not detailed consistently across reports, and no outlet confirmed whether a pardon was requested or granted.