--- title: ATT Paid Cohen: Customer Service Gets Trolled on Twitter description: Once the internet was abuzz with the news that AT&T paid Trump's longtime attorney Michael Cohen, people trolled AT&T on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/5271042/att-paid-michael-cohen-tweets/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-09T15:21:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:45.880Z og:title: People Troll AT&T's Over Its Payments to Michael Cohen og:description: "Press #3 for Stormy Daniels" og:url: https://time.com/5271042/att-paid-michael-cohen-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt207b6e01b183c646/69892eb3929fad793abf0610/michael-cohen-fifth-amendment.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Trump's Personal Lawyer Michael Cohen Appears For Court Hearing Related To FBI Raid On His Hotel Room And Office og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Troll AT&T's Over Its Payments to Michael Cohen twitter:description: "Press #3 for Stormy Daniels" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt207b6e01b183c646/69892eb3929fad793abf0610/michael-cohen-fifth-amendment.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Trolled AT&T's Customer Service Account Over Its Payments to Michael Cohen by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 9, 2018 3:21 PM UTC  President Donald Trump's long-time personal attorney Michael Cohen exits a New York court on April 16, 2018 in New York City. President Donald Trump's long-time personal attorney Michael Cohen exits a New York court on April 16, 2018 in New York City.Spencer Platt/Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 9, 2018 3:21 PM UTC AT&T customer support never bargained for this. After AT&T confirmed Tuesday that the company paid President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer [Michael Cohen](http://time.com/5261234/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-taxes-taxi-business/) for “insights into understanding the new administration,” people on the internet chimed in with criticism. Specifically, they decided to go after the automated @ATTCares handle, which responded dutifully to every joke and attack. > [](https://twitter.com/ATT/status/994016858499141632) People are willing to hold and to invoke a Samuel L. Jackson sipping GIF from _Pulp Fiction_. > [](https://twitter.com/SamScrogg/status/993997331799343106) > [](https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/993993829354278912) > [](https://twitter.com/reinventjulie/status/994020869549813761) > [](https://twitter.com/jessicashortall/status/994213799656734722) In a [statement AT&T said Cohen’s company](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/att-confirms-it-paid-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-for-insights-on-administration.html) “was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration.” Other than that, it’s all automated responses so far as of Wednesday morning. > [](https://twitter.com/ATTCares/status/993993612093517829) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5271042/att-paid-michael-cohen-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5271042/att-paid-michael-cohen-tweets/"},"headline":"People Trolled AT&T's Customer Service Account Over Its Payments to Michael Cohen","datePublished":"2018-05-09T15:21:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:45.880Z","description":"Once the internet was abuzz with the news that AT&T paid Trump's longtime attorney Michael Cohen, people trolled AT&T on Twitter.","url":"https://time.com/5271042/att-paid-michael-cohen-tweets/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","viral","Donald Trump","michael cohen"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt207b6e01b183c646/69892eb3929fad793abf0610/michael-cohen-fifth-amendment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt207b6e01b183c646/69892eb3929fad793abf0610/michael-cohen-fifth-amendment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump's Personal Lawyer Michael Cohen Appears For Court Hearing Related To FBI Raid On His Hotel Room And Office","caption":"Trump's Personal Lawyer Michael Cohen Appears For Court Hearing Related To FBI Raid On His Hotel Room And Office","creditText":"Spencer Platt/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5271042/att-paid-michael-cohen-tweets/","name":"People Trolled AT&T's Customer Service Account Over Its Payments to Michael Cohen"}}]}] ```