CNN’s Chris Cuomo knew the backlash would be coming once he put words in President Trump‘s mouth.
The “New Day” host, commenting on Trump’s latest remarks on NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, said people would “come at me on Twitter for this.”
Trump blasted NFL owners as being “afraid” of their players during Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning, prompting Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon to say that the president was “effectively trolling the owners, and it’s the language he understands of fear and goading.”
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“But maybe even uglier than that,” Cuomo interjected. “It does sound a little bit — and obviously you can come at me on Twitter for this — like he’s saying: ‘Control your dog. Control your dog,’ to the owners.”
The CNN host continued, accusing Trump of creating the issue.
“I’m trying to map it here,” he said. “They’re his friends, the owners, okay. To his friends, he creates a false issue, which puts them in a huge bind. Then, he says ‘Well, I feel bad about what’s happening there with these guys’ — which clearly he does not, because he created this issue to foment political tension. And now he says they’re fearful of the players, so he is setting up the ugliest kind of tension you can.”
It didn’t take long for Cuomo’s remarks to ignite a backlash on Twitter.
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@ChrisCuomo U take something that @POTUS said & interpret in such a way to make it sound like he refers to the players as Dogs? Really? smh
— Tom Ellis (@2muchm30) September 28, 2017
So, it;s ‘probable’ he meant it. Its not the job of an anchor to interpret something someone says to use it as red meat for his viewers.
— Tom Ellis (@2muchm30) September 28, 2017
Cuomo fired back at critics, telling them he is not responsible.
You accuse ME of tossing red meat on NFL fiasco? That’s as crazy as saying potus 100% focused on #PuertoRico. Don’t be a lemming! https://t.co/9I2aZAQkRf
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) September 28, 2017
He called them SOB’s. he says players are afraid and need to do something. Blame him not me for message sent. I just cut thru the bs https://t.co/5H5MKFA4u5
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) September 28, 2017
But the floodgates were opened and Cuomo was swept away in the outrage.
The age of simply informing the public of what happened is gone. Everything has turned into a talk show with their own agenda.
— johnT_D (@johnT_D) September 28, 2017
No such thing as News reporters. Everyone is taking the news and adding their opinions… Some are on point, but most are off on crazy land.
— Big Hits (@young5skiers) September 28, 2017
Chris, you live to stir the pot. Take a good look at self. You push for division.
— Diana Novak (@novak5_novak) September 28, 2017
No you pile on the BS.
When someone say SOB they’re not literally calling someone a son of a dog, no one uses it that way.— ChrisOnPolitics (@USA_First_2016) September 28, 2017
Ellis is referring to your implausible interpretation, something you and other CNN hacks do often to please your corporate directors.
— Bill Burns (@b2burns) September 28, 2017
If you were an objective journalist your tweet would make sense. But you’re not, ergo it doesn’t.
— Ant Barclay (@KeithVerity) September 28, 2017
No! You did what CNN and MSNBC do all the time.. MANUFACTURE YOUR OWN VERSION OF THE NEWS! Some call it lying. Some call it FAKE NEWS.
— Jon Dize/DIZEMAN (@DIZEMAN) September 28, 2017
You don’t ‘cut through the bs’, u twist it to fit ur ideology
— Double J (@DIPGparent) September 28, 2017
No Cuomo…you do it all the time. You know it. People are not as stupid as you think they are. You twist the truth to fit YOUR agenda.
— James (@HD4U2NVY) September 28, 2017
NOBODY wants your opinion Cuomo…report and let us decide….disgrace to your profession…
— J.S. Byrd (@JeffreysByrd) September 28, 2017
Did he really say dogs or is that your sick interpretation? You’re making it a racial issue vs ppl who respect the flag/anthem
— GPA-Jim (@Bad2DaaBone) September 28, 2017
Dogs? Ridiculous bias/divisive BS your objective is sick. If u were ever handed a 3 pointed folded flag 4 a fallen love 1 maybe you’d get it
— GPA-Jim (@Bad2DaaBone) September 28, 2017
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