You might know Phil McGraw from his decades of being a moralizing talk show host, but did you know he's also occupied a plum position at the Table of Success for the past few years? Read all about his special relationship with Mayor Eric Adams—and "border czar" Tom Homan—in Dr. Phil's entry, which you can read below or here.
A good friend introduces you to their circle, especially if they think you'll all get along—and by that metric, Dr. Phil has been a great friend to Eric Adams. In December 2024, Dr. Phil FaceTimed the mayor to make a very important connection, introducing Adams to Tom Homan, Donald Trump's "border czar" and the "father" of the first Trump administration's family separation policy. That call, brokered by Dr. Phil, was the start of a transactional friendship that unfolded against the backdrop of Adams's federal corruption case and the mayor's desperate cozying up to Donald Trump, recently victorious in the presidential election and with the mayor's fate essentially in his hands.
Since then, as Eric Adams has continued his ascent into Trumpworld and the right-wing mediasphere and wriggled out of federal prosecution by allegedly making a deal with the White House over immigration enforcement, Dr. Phil has been right beside him, inviting the mayor to appear on his eponymous entertainment platforms. In return, Dr. Phil has continued to get rare access to the NYPD's inner sanctum as Adams's top cops crack down on immigrant New Yorkers, in order to slake his audience's appetite for the narrative that Democratic cities are overrun by criminals and undocumented immigrants.