When Gary Cohn quit his highly remunerative job at Goldman Sachs to go work for Donald Trump, his peers on Wall Street were more than a little shocked. For one thing, Cohn is a lifelong Democrat. For another, the president is a moron, someone who the Goldman No. 2 would historically have said wasn’t qualified to shine his shoes, let alone be his boss. For a brief period, that shock turned to relief, with the business community and others hoping Cohn would serve as a voice of reason, and restrain the president from his worst impulses. As it became clear that would not happen, and that there was little Cohn could do to get it into Trump’s head that, for example, leaving the Paris climate agreement was a bad idea and slapping tariffs on countries around the world was even worse, the relief turned to second-hand embarrassment, particularly when Cohn would go on TV and humiliate himself in service to a guy he would have fired on day one at his old job.

Unsurprisingly, after hitting his breaking point in March and basically sprinting barefoot across the South Lawn of the White House, paying an Uber driver $1,000 to drive him straight back to New York, and vowing never to set foot in D.C. again, Cohn has embarked on something of an image-rehabilitation tour. For starters, many suspect him of spoon-feeding Bob Woodward a number of anecdotes for Fear that paint a picture of a commander in chief who doesn’t know his ass from his elbow, despite Cohn claiming in a statement that the book does not “accurately portray” his experience in the White House, wink wink. He‘s also made his position on Trump’s trade policies completely unambiguous, telling CNBC, “No one wins in a trade war. . . . I am anti-tariff. . . . If we artificially raise the price of goods because of tariffs, we are hurting the service economy,” and commenting, in a clear reference to his ex-boss’s America First-everyone-else-dead-last approach, “We live in an economically interconnected world; we live in a world of allies, ally nations; we have treaties and agreements where we defend each other.”

All those things were smart ideas! They give the impression Cohn wasn’t fully lobotomized during his 15+ months in the White House, or completely go over to the bad place. Maybe a less good idea was insisting during a conversation with Reuters on Monday night that Wall Street was unfairly punished for the financial crisis, and that people don’t talk enough about the deadbeat cocktail waitresses who are also to blame: