Chris Cuomo Shuts Down Viewer Claiming Trump Doesn’t Want To ‘Unite’ the Country: ‘I Know Him and You Don’t’
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Chris Cuomo shut down a viewer arguing President-elect Donald Trump does not want to “unite” the country in his second term.
On Thursday’s The Chris Cuomo Project podcast, Cuomo responded to a viewer saying that Trump can “continue the division” and he’s “very comfortable doing so.”
“Call me negative, but I don’t think ‘unifying’ will be a priority,” the viewer wrote, responding to Cuomo previously arguing Trump “has to” tackle the country’s political and cultural divisions when he’s back in the White House.
“That’s because you don’t understand leadership and governance versus antagonism and campaigning. The reason the expression ‘You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose’ has — you’re like, ‘What, who said that?’ You’re right. You’re not a student of the game,” Cuomo responded. “You’re about how you feel and negativity as a proxy for insight.”
Cuomo added, “That’s you, okay? ‘You don’t know me.’ I don’t want to know you. I’m telling you how you present, as a doctor would say, this is how you present. ‘That’s not who I am.’ I don’t give a shit who you are. That’s how you present, and that’s how you came to me.”
Cuomo argued Trump is “best served by no longer being the spirit animal of the outraged in the right fringe” and that he will be concerned with his legacy, which right now is an incredibly divisive one. He told the viewer he has more insight on the matter too as he knows Trump.
“The reason that Donald Trump doesn’t stay with what got him here is because it won’t get him where he wants to be — which is what? Greatness. Donald Trump understands that he is not considered great in the pages of history. H is not. He is an asterisk, he is scandal, he is diminishment of norms,” he said. “That’s what he is, and that is not what he wants to be. How do I know I’m right and not you? Well, one, I know him and you don’t.”
Watch above via The Chris Cuomo Project.
