CV NEWS FEED // NewsNation host Chris Cuomo called President Donald Trump this week to apologize following the second attempt on the Republican nominee’s life in two months.
Shortly after his phone call to the former president, the host addressed viewers of his show “Cuomo.”
“Yet, I called [Trump] today because I am ashamed,” Cuomo said on air, “of how we are responding and not responding to the threats on him.”
“And I feel for his family,” he added. “And I know, you can roll your eyes … that’s your choice and I think it’s a wrong choice.”
“I’m having a hard time,” Cuomo stated at the beginning of his monologue. “I’ve rarely struggled as I have the last couple of days on what to say tonight.”
He went on to state that Americans “have to care about one another. It is our only bond.”
“Right now,” Cuomo continued, “we are so desperate to drag ourselves away from greatness, from progress, from each other. And that is what I see that really bothers me.”
“And the reaction, and the lack of reaction to the second attempt on Trump in the last couple of months,” he noted:
What if it was your father? Or what if it was Kamala Harris, or President Biden, God forbid? You think that it would be almost a shoulder shrug and more of talk about the Secret Service and allocation of funds than just how crazy it is that this is what’s happening in our country?
“The reaction is unacceptable,” Cuomo emphasized. “And it’s the second time media and political players have gotten away with playing down what should be a cause for panic.”
“It’s so intoxicating, it’s so contagious, the negativity,” the host observed. “We need our leaders to step up and start being rewarded for stepping up and doing the right thing.”
However, “division gets you paid,” he pointed out. “Division gets you clicks. Division gets you a following. Division, especially in digital media, is absolutely the way to get known.”
Cuomo told his viewers that it “troubled” him to hear “fake concern by our sitting president [Joe Biden] and almost nothing from the Democrat who wants to lead us [Kamala Harris] about what happened with Trump.”
Cuomo criticized post-shooting statements from Democratic officials about not condoning violence, adding: “We need a lot more than that right now.”
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“So, after waiting for a real message, looking around the media,” Cuomo recounted, “here’s what I did.”
“I called former President Trump,” he said. “I didn’t ask him any questions. I didn’t go after him about his role. I just wanted to know how his family is taking this.”
“Because I grew up like that,” Cuomo indicated. “I grew up worried about who was trying to hurt my father.”
Cuomo comes from a prominent New York Democratic political family. His brother Andrew Cuomo and late father Mario Cuomo each served as the state’s governor.
Cuomo added that he does not know how Trump “stays in the race” following this weekend’s shooting and the July 13 assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I don’t know how he got up after being shot in the head,” the host said, “and you people who try to mitigate that, you need to check yourself.”
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Trump “gets up, pumping his fist, stays in the race, barely even talks about it,” Cuomo stated.
Cuomo said he believes Trump “has wasted opportunities and he has another one now.”
“Who better than Trump to say, ‘We can do better. I can do better,’” the host said. “He now has another chance.”
Cuomo stressed that he is not supporting Trump – “I’m supporting us.”
“I am worried about us,” he said. “I am ashamed of what’s happening around us right now, and the relative lack of concern about it.”
