Trump to appear on ex-'fixer' Michael Cohen's radio show

Michael Cohen spent years telling anyone with a microphone that Donald Trump was a con man, a racist, a threat to the republic. Now he's got Trump booked on his own radio show. Somebody explain how that works, because we can't.

This isn't really about politics. It's about how fast the permanent grudge match in Washington evaporates the second there's a deal to be made or an audience to be built. Cohen went to prison, wrote a tell-all, testified against his old boss in a hush money trial, and turned himself into a cable news fixture off the strength of hating Trump publicly. Trump, for his part, called Cohen a rat and worse. Now they're doing radio together. Whatever the actual content of Thursday's interview turns out to be, the optics alone tell you something about how personal a lot of this "principled opposition" business really is.

We're not naive enough to be shocked that two guys who need attention found a way to get more of it together. That's just show business wearing a politics costume. But it's worth noting for anyone who's been told for years that Cohen's break with Trump was a moral reckoning rather than a business pivot. Grudges in this town have a shelf life, and it's usually however long it takes for a bigger opportunity to show up.