CNN host Chris Cuomo went on a rant Tuesday, angry that President Donald Trump told reporters that he wanted to give Americans hope during the coronavirus outbreak.

Cuomo Comes Unhinged

Cuomo, who is infected with COVID-19, said from his basement where he is quarantined, “Get real. The past is over. There can be no more letting politics reinforce our worst instincts. We need to build on our best instincts. And that said, while I’m asking you all to do that, the man at the top refuses to change.”

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Cuomo then shared a clip from Trump’s press conference where the President said, “Well, the cases really didn’t build up for a while, but you have to understand, I’m a cheerleader for this country. I don’t want to create havoc and shock and everything else. … I’m not going to go out and start screaming, this could happen, this could happen.”

“That’s exactly what leadership is,” Cuomo angrily said. “Anybody can tell people what they want to hear. And make it easier. And then you know what you get? Exactly where we are right now.”

Cuomo Curses Trump

“That was the most asinine statement of leadership I have ever heard and I can’t even dismiss it on the president having 102 fever, like I do, because that is clear thinking from him” Cuomo said.

“I’m a cheerleader, so, I’m going to lie to you about the realities that your parents, your loved ones and your kids face,” Cuomo raged on. “I’m not going to prepare the way I should because it reinforces the bulls***. I’m telling you and I’m going to hope you’re okay with it.”

“We’ve got to do better than that,” he continued. “This president must do better than that. The good news is, he can. The bad news is, he refuses to. And that, I have no answer for. He said we’d be good by Easter. On Easter Sunday, you know what? I will be sick and I will be sick for some time to come. And somebody telling me something else doesn’t make me feel any better. It makes me feel worse about them.”

 

A Deceptively Edited Clip

But Cuomo was being disingenuous. The clip he showed was edited unfairly to the President. Trump was actually trying to reassure the country that he was taking steps to combat the spread of the virus.

Trump’s full remarks were, “Well, the cases really didn’t build up for a while, but you have to understand, I’m a cheerleader for this country. I don’t want to create havoc and shock and everything else but ultimately, when I was saying that, I’m also closing that down. I obviously was concerned about it because I closed down our country to China, which was heavily infected.”

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“I then closed it down to Europe,” Trump said. “That’s a big move, closing it down from China and then closing it from Europe and then ultimately closing it down to the U.K. So, and it was right about that time. But I’m not going to go out and start screaming, this could happen, this could happen.”

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“So, again as president, I think a president has to be a cheerleader for their country, but at the same time I’m cheerleading, I’m also closing down a very highly infected place, specifically, the location, as you know, in China that the problems, and we’re closing it down,” Trump said. “But we closed it down to all of China, then we closed it down to all of Europe and those were big moves.”

See for yourself.

Nice try, Chris. Get well soon.

And we don’t just mean from coronavirus.

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