Albany, NY – In a searing speech from the pulpit of a black church, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a Brooklyn congregation on Sunday that Donald Trump is a “slick salesman” who fooled many people in this country, but the Democrat said the Republican president hasn’t fooled New Yorkers.
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Cuomo spoke at Brooklyn’s First Baptist Church of Crown Heights after a week of criticism for saying America “was never that great” during a bill signing. New York Republicans have demanded he apologize, and Trump tweeted that Cuomo was having a “total meltdown.”
The governor seemed to counter what many observers considered a political blunder — a play on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” signature line that Cuomo later acknowledged was “inartful” on his part.
This time, he offered a loftier exhortation: “Mr. President, you are not taking this nation back in time, because we believe our best days are ahead of us, not behind us. And we will bring the light, and we will overcome, and we will vindicate this nation’s better angels together.”
Cuomo told the congregation that New York’s Statue of Liberty is a symbol of America’s acceptance of people of all races, beliefs, languages and lifestyles. By contrast, he said, the wall Trump wants built along the border with Mexico represents rejection of those who are different.
The rest of Cuomo’s speech was peppered with a point-by-point attack on the policies, language and behavior of a president who lost his home state in the 2016 election.
He hammered Trump for creating what Cuomo called a “frightening portrait” of today’s America.
“You may be a slick salesman who fooled many people in this country, but you didn’t fool me and you didn’t fool New Yorkers,” Cuomo said. “We know who you are and we’re going to rise up and tell this nation the truth about who you are, because when the voice of division is raised, a chorus of unity must rise in response.”
Addressing minority communities like the Crown Heights neighborhood, the governor noted that New York state has the strongest gun control law in the nation “because we’re tired of seeing people getting massacred on our streets,” while the president “is blind to the suffering and pain of gun violence,”
Cuomo also touched on Trump’s attitude toward women, including former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, whom Trump has called a “dog” and a “lowlife” after she publicly criticized him.
“If a woman dares to speak up, then King Trump attacks her,” said Cuomo, who called the president the “Great Divider in Chief.”
is this guy crazy ‘rejection of those who are different’ what a blatant lier
He is aguda s man
We want a wall with Mexico, to keep out ILLEAGALS regardless of race, color or religion
When the Holocaust survivors came to America, they had to wait for YEARS to get in, the ALL came here legally.
This has Nothing to do being “different” it is about being legal.
When will the African American community wake up & realize that the Democratic party doesn’t care about them at all.
Case in point, CHICAGO!! Dozens of people being shot on a weekly basis, mostly African Americans, where is the outrage?? Why don’t we see the Democratic leadership do anything about it???
The answer is obvious, the Democrats don’t care
For those who don’t get it , Cuomo is running for reelection. He will defeat Nixon but he wants to crush her . The easiest way to win over her socialist progressive base is to punch Trump and get under his skin . It’s all political tactics . No alutristic values on cuomo end at all . The man is playing naive liberal New Yorkers .
Con artist
do you know any democrap that isn’t a liar, comey, hjillary, billy, mueller, schmuer,
al gore, obumma, susan rice, etc etc etc
The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of those who came into the country legally. The wall is to prevent people from coming into the country illegally. He is trying to make the republicans look bad and it is back firing.
Hes doomed. gonna come back to haunt him bigtime. hes now in a church thats a safe haven to him but wait till hel go out in the real world and campaign for 2020. hel hava tough time answering to people besides for the liberal NY
Cuomo is looking like a fool messing with the president. He already backtracked once this past week. Cuomo needs Trump more than Trump needs Cuomo.
“Fooled.”??? Coumo is the fool. If Trump were a slick talking politician, you can perhaps say people were fooled, but the way Trump talks no one was fooled. I held my nose as I pulled the lever for Trump only because I didn’t want Clinton and many others did the same. But, there were millions in upstate NY and across the country that saw what the democrats did to america and wanted to make America great again. These people weren’t fooled by anybody..
Unfortunately, he will continue as governor of NY State.
This sick liberal needs a mirror after blurting out his true feelings about America never having been great! Anyone who could support these traitorous liberals who care only about their own careers and not the country, is just as despicable as their so called leaders.