This is my Mayor Coppah!

This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the one and only Mayor Copea podcast right here on the Mighty Midas Touch Network.

So look for all future episodes of our show behind the Blue Banner icon.

And I'm truly thankful that you hear.

And because of you, we have now exceeded 500 million downloads to date.

That's right, 500 million downloads to date. And as it's now the holiday,

I want to have a rerun, a rerun of the very first episode ever here on Mayor Culper. You see,

before Mayor Culper had an audience, a rhythm or even a real sense of where it was going,

it had urgency.

I'm taking you back to September of 2020.

I wasn't fresh out of Trump's orbit.

No, I was fresh out of prison, confined to my apartment, ankle monitor, still very much part of the decor, and I was determined that my voice would travel farther than the walls of home confinement allowed.

And that's where Mayor Culper began. And it began with Rosie O'Donnell.

Rosie wasn't to say first guest, no. You know what she was? She was the right one.

She had known Trump long before politics sanitized his cruelty for public consumption.

She didn't analyze him as a movement or as a moment. She understood him as a man. And in that

first conversation, we weren't theorizing. We were documenting character. We talked about ego, his endless, brittle need to dominate every room,

every conversation, every human being. We talked about meanness, not as a byproduct, but as a feature.

Cruelty, not as a lapse, but as a strategy. You know, Rosie said something that still echoes today.

She said, Trump doesn't just enjoy praise.

He requires submission.

And when he doesn't get it, he punishes.

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