The Chris Cuomo Project

Episode: Top 5 Ways Trump Broke MAGA’s Biggest Promises
Host: Chris Cuomo
Date: May 7, 2026

Episode Overview

In this solo Thursday episode, Chris Cuomo breaks down what he considers the top five fundamental ways former President Donald Trump has failed the core promises of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement. Eschewing lurid scandals and “Penny Annie” distractions, Cuomo focuses on big structural betrayals that, he argues, have left MAGA’s core supporters worse off and will shape the coming midterms—if Democrats can seize the narrative. Cuomo uses a mix of policy analysis, sarcasm, and candid, sometimes coarse commentary to drive his points home.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Failure to Focus on Domestic Priorities & Economic Affordability

[00:58] Trump’s signature “America First” promise is described as a hollow shell.
The 2017 tax cuts disproportionately helped the wealthy and fueled inflation, not broad prosperity.
“He did his tax cuts, which have not done for the economy what was promised…They helped the top. No question about that. But for the many, I don’t think they get the benefit that the few does.” (Chris Cuomo, 01:30)
Promises to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with “something better” evaporated. Not only was no “better” plan delivered, even subsidies couldn’t get passed.
“Healthcare is crushing people. He knows it. He ignores it. He distracts you from it.” (02:30)
Big ideas like calling in health care CEOs or lowering credit card rates were floated—then abandoned, showing deference to entrenched interests.

2. Tariffs and the War in Iran: Betrayal of ‘America First’ Principles

[03:26] Tariffs promised to revive US manufacturing and help American families, but instead raised costs, fueled inflation, and prompted retaliatory tariffs—especially hurting small farmers and businesses.
“The tariffs have absolutely helped drive inflation, raise prices on things that matter, like gas, but other things as well. And they have crushed small businesses.” (03:49)
War in Iran (ongoing as of this episode) stands as an explicit broken promise: Trump pledged no more foreign entanglements, but initiated another costly conflict based on, Cuomo asserts, questionable intelligence.
War’s domestic impacts include direct budget strain, legislative dysfunction, and higher consumer costs.
“His own intelligence agencies are saying it’s not true. So he betrayed that promise.” (06:42)
“Most of them [MAGA supporters] are not hawks. So you’re crushing us during affordability crisis.” (07:12)

3. Government Disruption & Institutional Decay

[19:15] MAGA’s hope was for streamlined, less corrupt, more effective governance. Cuomo argues Trump’s actual legacy is further erosion: delayed or inaccurate data, heightened cynicism, and more corruption.
“He has made it very clear by gutting different agencies…Our economic data comes out more slowly than ever and is wrong more often than ever because he cut down the people who are doing it.” (19:53)
The Justice Department and Supreme Court, in Cuomo’s view, are more politicized and discredited, undermining faith in institutions.

4. Healthcare: An Unmet, Worsening Crisis

[21:05] MAGA voters disproportionately burdened by ever-increasing healthcare costs.
Per-capita expenses are higher than ever; “Trump RX” platform widely panned as a weak, performative attempt.
“They couldn’t even get a handful of drugs cheaper. Have you looked at that Trump RX bullshit platform? The prices you can get better on other sites.” (21:40)
Trump failed not only to repeal the ACA, but even to address pharmaceutical pricing in a meaningful way—failing his base where it counts.

5. Cultural Coarsening & Division

[22:43] Perhaps most controversially, Cuomo claims Trump normalized “meanness” and divisive politics, making it “okay to be coarse” and excusing negative behavior if “the other side is worse.”
On both left and right, violence and virulence have escalated, leaving the country corroded rather than ‘great again.’
“He literally doesn’t even attempt [to unify]. He sees it as weakness. He now, more than ever, more brazenly than ever, only praises people who praise him. And it doesn’t matter who they are or what they are.” (23:30)
Congressional paralysis and shutdowns—ongoing as of recording—are, in Cuomo’s view, manifestations of a toxic political culture emboldened by Trump.
“He has ultimately now, because of it, betrayed his own movement. Because he guaranteed that things got worse.” (27:14)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On economic populism:
“We’re going to lower prices. We’re going to help you buy a house. We’re going to help you buy a car. Economic, economic, economic. Easy to say, hard to do. He then gets in, Bill O’Reilly and others start saying what? ‘Lowering prices is hard.’ Yeah, no shit.” (10:09)
On healthcare failures:
“Healthcare is killing them [MAGA]. More and more of them are going to rely on Medicaid, which has given them less and less. This is a big deal. Big deal.” (21:57)
On cultural corrosion:
“Trump was very effective in exaggerating what was already taking place, which is the cheapening of our politics in pursuit of this binary battle to the bottom that…is demonstrative of what’s wrong with our democracy.” (24:57)
On institutional decay:
“He has made it very clear by gutting different agencies…our economic data comes out more slowly than ever and is wrong more often than ever because he cut down the people who are doing it.” (19:53)
On future Republican narratives:
“I think the future for what used to be the Republican Party and will want to once again be the Republican Party is going to be: Trump was the bad guy. He’s the aberration. We had to work with him because the people wanted him…but we were never about him. We were quiet because we didn’t agree. You can’t read our silence as acquiescence.” (33:06)

Important Timestamps

00:58: Introduction to five fundamental ways Trump broke MAGA promises.
03:26: Tariffs and the inflationary impact on small business and consumers.
05:50: War in Iran: broken anti-interventionist promises.
10:09: Reflections on economic promises vs. reality.
14:18: Trump’s tax cuts, government spending, and the ballooning federal deficit.
19:15: Erosion of trust and effectiveness in government institutions.
21:05: Persistent, worsened healthcare crisis among MAGA base.
22:43: Cultural and political coarsening: normalization of “being mean.”
24:57: Analysis on how Trump “turbocharged” existing polarization.
27:14: The impact of division leading to congressional dysfunction.
33:06: Predictions on the GOP’s post-Trump rebranding and future battles.

Additional Insights & Comments

Cuomo highlights, but explicitly excludes, hot-button cultural issues like the Epstein files, the “ballroom,” and specific Trump scandals, arguing these are distractions from universal, practical failings.
He sees a parallel in future populist movements—with continued economic anxiety and dissatisfaction—regardless of whether Trump remains at the center.
Democrats, Cuomo warns, can’t win just by being “the opposite of Trump” or by focusing solely on his negatives: “I think it’s a mistake for the Democrats to campaign so heavily on Trump sucks. I think they should leave that to the next manifestation of the Republicans…The Democrats have to prove to people that they have solutions.” (25:45)
Cuomo ends by emphasizing optimism and independent thought, encouraging listeners to remain critical, independent, and engaged.
Final note: Each of the “Top 5” is interconnected, feeding into broader themes of lost opportunity, economic futility, and corrupted civic life.

Summary Table: Top 5 Ways Trump “Broke” MAGA Promises

| # | Betrayal | Details | Time | |----|------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------| | 1 | Domestic Priorities & Affordability| Tax cuts failed to help most, economic promises not realized, no ACA replacement, rising living costs. | 00:58 | | 2 | Tariffs & War in Iran | Raised costs, inflation, failed to revive industry, broke anti-war promise, increased defense spending. | 03:26 | | 3 | Institutional Decay | Deeper government dysfunction, lack of accountability, undermined agencies and courts, political lawfare. | 19:15 | | 4 | Healthcare Failure | No meaningful progress, high costs persist, Trump RX ineffective, ACA repeal attempts failed. | 21:05 | | 5 | Culture of Division & Coarseness | Normalization of cruelty/hostility, lack of unity, worsened partisanship, congressional paralysis. | 22:43 |

Concluding Thoughts

Chris Cuomo delivers a fierce, point-by-point case that Trumpism has left its own supporters—and the nation—disappointed on core MAGA promises. He frames the upcoming midterms as a test of whether Democrats can articulate and deliver real solutions, rather than simply running against Trump’s divisiveness. The episode is rich in specific policy critique, cultural observation, and warns of the enduring consequences of political disappointment and division.

“The problems are real, but so is the potential. Let's get after it.” – Chris Cuomo (Final remarks, 36:50)

Transcript

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You want to know the top five reasons that President Donald John Trump has failed maga? Well, I'm going to tell you, and I'm not even talking about the Epstein files. I'm not talking about the ballroom. I'm not talking about how he's destroyed decency, how he's made politics so poisonous. I'm not talking about any of that. These are the five big fundamentals that he will not escape from. And they will make all the difference come midterms if the Democrats know how to make the case and have the right people making it. I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. I'm gonna give you the top five reasons that President Trump has screwed MAGA over. And I'm not picking on any of the little Penny Annie things. These, the big structural things that broke the fundamental promises that he needed to and that has doomed maga. I will start with number one. Not because it's the biggest, but it's because it's what works the most, is that he has failed to focus on domestic priorities. The whole America first agenda has been blown out the ass of this administration, and everyone knows it. Okay? He did his tax cuts, which have not done for the economy what was promised. And for obvious reasons, he can say, you've gotten $43 billion more back than you would have otherwise, but you have to spend more money than ever before, again because of him. Not only do I believe that tax cuts do not stimulate the economy for the people who are supposed to matter to this administration, they helped the top. No question about that. But for the many, I don't think they get the benefit that the few does. And even if he hadn't done all these other things to hurt it. But the key pledges, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. He can't even pass the subsidies. He can't even hold a meeting with the healthcare biggs, which was a great idea, by the way, second only to his. I'm gonna call the banks and get them to lower their credit card interest rates. That was a great idea, too. Lasted two days. Why? Because he caves to big, powerful interests because his party is very sensitive to them. He never even had the meeting with the health care bigs. Don't you remember? I'm gonna call them all in. I'm gonna read them the Riot act, and we're gonna tell him, you make too much money. And we're gonna change that with or without you. You in or not. It's a great idea. Great idea. Never happened. So repealing and replacing with something better, the Affordable Care Act. Nothing. Can't even pass the subsidies. Healthcare is crushing people. He knows it. He ignores it. He distracts you from it. This is huge, okay? This was a huge fundamental promise. Affordability. His thing was there's no such thing as affordability. It's a made up word that landed like a fart in church. So now he'll talk about affordability just as the Democrats did it, Biden did it. Nobody believes it anymore. Why? Takes us to number two, the tariffs and the war in Iran. I mean you gotta separate them because they mean different things on different levels, but just terrible, terrible failures of the MAGA priorities in America. First, the tariffs were a wild notion that they would bring back manufacturing anytime soon and that they would balance anything in ways that are good for the American consumer in the ever, let alone in the short term. But the tariffs have absolutely helped drive inflation, raise prices on things that matter, like gas, but other things as well. And they have crushed small businesses. You know, we just had, we're in the middle of, as I shoot this national Small Business Week. He's done nothing for them. They're getting crushed. You know, there was a time when he used to promise that he would treat them equally to big businesses in the tax code. Remember? What percentage of businesses in America are small business? 99.9%. 0.1% are mid and large size corporations. Oh yeah, but they do all the hiring. What percentage of the employed work at a small business? 50% of us. Oh yeah. No, no, no. But the big businesses are the ones that make all the money. That's why they get the preference. What percentage of the GDP is made by small business? 50%. You see what I'm saying? The priority is because of preference. It's a choice. It's not because of the economic realities. So they have their own tax code. Small businesses don't. There's no small business tax rate. I had this Trumper on my show the other day saying about, hey look, we really helped them with the small business tax rate. What's small business tax rate? They're all flow through entities. You get taxed as an individual. They don't even have a special rate for small businesses. Why not? One time they said they would. Now they're just assuming there's one. But they never did it, you know, so you have to look at the number one thing that was supposed to be America first and that was supposed to be economic. And he's made affordability worse. They don't even know how to Argue it anymore. They just distract you from it. Okay? What do you think this war was about? Takes us to number two. The war. Okay, now, the war is bad on several levels, okay? And the extra is the regime sucks. Is true. The fact that we would be better off without them in Iran, the Iranian people, the Persians and others, and us here at home in America. True, but that is not enough to justify what clearly was not well thought through, not well designed, and not well executed. Oh, you're saying the US military sucks. Ms. Me with that? Okay, nobody believes that. No, real people believe that. Criticizing what's going on over there means I want the regime to win. All right? Save that for the idiots on the college campuses that were saying Hamas isn't that bad. Okay, that's not me, all right? Hamas sucks. They're an extension of this regime, and the regime sucks, and the regime should be gone. It was the president, not my irrelevant ass, who said, as soon as this started, we're not gonna remove the regime. That was him. This was over for me. In terms of a transcendent. Good. Then of course, the US Military has pounded a lot of sites and reduced this and diminished that and killed them. Okay, but for how long and to what degree have you still gonna leave these scumbags in there? Same thing with the negotiation. How good a deal can you make with a bunch of terrorists? Okay. However, the number one reason within the number two reason, the main reason that this is such a big deal, the war in Iran, is because he promised he wouldn't do this anymore. And his basis of. Oh, yeah, but the regime was weeks away. That's a lie. His own intelligence agencies are saying it's not true. So he betrayed that promise. Now you get to the second order of effects. Cost, cost, Straight up asking for money for the Defense and Department in the middle of an affordability crisis. What? Big, big betrayal to maga. Big, big. Most of them are not hawks. So you're crushing us during affordability crisis. Gas prices, food prices, all of these things getting scarce because you went to war. And we don't know for how long these effects will last. That then takes you to the third one, which is by focusing over there. He may see it as a distraction, but it is also the reason for inaction on the domestic agenda, and that's a big, big problem. So the war is a biggie on three levels. And why didn't you put it first? Because the tariffs and the America first economic domestic agenda is the main reason that Donald Trump is president. Well, the main reason he's president is because the Democrats fucked it up and handed it to him with their process and their candidate choice structure. And the immigration issue and how they misplayed it and how they saddled Kamala Harris with it by making her the border czar, which was supposed to be a fake title. Who knew it was gonna be such a defining issue? They should have is who. Trump and his team. That's who knew. So now why isn't immigration in here? Well, he's focused on immigration. I think the way he's doing it is screwing up a good thing for him. I think he should have done rule changes, but that's a big part of my analysis is because all of the stuff he promised he needs Congress for and he doesn't have the numbers and he does not have the deal making capabilities. I'm telling you, the art of the deal is bullshit. Okay? He is not known as a dealmaker. He may like deals. That doesn't make you a good deal maker. Okay? And you haven't seen him make a good deal yet. 10 years. What good deal? Seriously? So number one is the tariffs because it was the complete betrayal of doing better and more domestically, economically, for the many. And he can sell it any way he wants. I think it was always a simple thing because remember what they did. We're going to lower prices. We're going to lower prices. We're going to lower prices. We're going to help you buy a house. We're going to help you buy a car. We're going to help you with this. We're going to help you with that. Economic, Economic. Economic. Easy to say, hard to do. He then gets in, Bill O'Reilly and others start saying what? You know, lowering prices is hard. It takes time. It's hard. Yeah, no shit. That's why it's really effective when you're out of power and really hard when you're in power. So what did he need? Well, he does the tax cuts. Tax cuts weren't enough. Everybody knew that. So he needs something. He needs a deliverable. That's where the tariffs came from. And they sold them as something that they were never going to be. Why? They took a flyer on it and then it didn't work. And then all of a sudden we're at war, which is number two. So number two is going to be that war. And for several reasons. All right? And this is a big deal. And I'll tell you another part of how the economic failure is manifested by the war and exacerbated by the war, the Retaliation from other countries hitting back on tariffs, targeting US Agriculture have been effective enough that the government has had to once again bail out farms. Okay? And they have sent billions to farmers to offset losses that he created with his policy. All right, so there's another reason. All right, now the. And really, you know, look, I could have done five that are all war related, but there are other ones. He cut the taxes, which means what? Less revenue, okay? He then spent like a drunken sailor. Did you know that if you include the pandemic, Trump and Biden have larded on more spending than anyone else. It's not even close since the New Deal, okay? And let me tell you, their spending did not help us the way the New Deal did. They want to blame Biden for all that shit, but they always want to pretend like Trump wasn't there in the beginning. Trump wasn't the one who made Tony Fauci the voice of America. Now, I don't believe Tony Fauci did anything prosecutable, okay? I don't. And I know others disagree. And we'll see if they can make the case. I think the DOJ is gonna get more egg on its face. Hey, you may not like his answers on gain of function, okay? But we didn't develop COVID 19, okay? It didn't come from our research. It probably came from that lab, and then they leaked it, but whatever. You want to prosecute him, try. But Trump brought you Tony Fauci, okay? He put him in that position. Biden kept him there. All right? Don't forget, don't forget he was the one who made Tony Fauci the man. So I don't know how he doesn't own that shit. And he definitely owns the spending. Okay, then and now he has been spending like a drunken sailor after cutting how much money comes in? Don't you see? You can't cut it out of federal jobs. You screwed up our soft power with Doge, which was a complete catastrophe. I was gonna put that on the list, by the way, Doge, but I think there were things that matter more. So the deficits have created a situation where the United States under Trump's watch, and because of Trump's choices, not Biden's, Trump's. Trump's spending, we now owe more money than we make in a year. For the first time since the 40s, the US debt exceeds the US GDP. That's on Trump. That's huge. It has huge implications in terms of borrowing and the structural strength of our economy. The Tax Cuts and jobs act of 2017. Okay. That he then extended again when he got in again, did not lead to reduced spending. It was conservative anathema. It was huge. It was a huge mistake. Okay? Huge support for the Chris Cuomo project comes from Quince. Got my stuff. The stuff is good, and here's why I dig it and want to advertise with them. Quality garments, well priced, so the stuff is gonna last, okay? 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Sure, they're talking about waste, fraud and abuse. It's real, it's there, it's identifiable, it almost always is. How much and how many places? I don't know. We'll see. But they're not the first to do this. And it won't make the biggest difference, but it does feed this idea that everything we do is corrupt. Everything the government does is bad and wrong. And now it's owned by this president. And now he has gotten us to a place where the American people, the MAGA folks specifically, no longer believe that government can do anything. And Trump empowered that with his rhetoric and his actions. Okay? He has made it very clear by gutting different agencies and how money is spent. Our economic data comes out more slowly than ever and is wrong more often than ever because he cut down the people who are doing it. So his disruption of the institutions have made a huge difference. Okay? Now it may seem like, eh, it's a little in the weeds. I'm telling you, this was a big deal. The government's gonna work for people again. It's gonna be effective, it's gonna be efficient. He's made it all worse. All of it. You know, he's made it more corrupt. Who gets in? Right? He's put more pressure on the Supreme Court. He's made the DOJ more about lawfare than ever. Than ever. They're making bad cases like we've never seen the DOJ make before. And I don't even think we've seen the worst of it yet. So that was a big deal for MAGA folks. All right? Now number four, healthcare. It is now a top three expense for every American family. It was never supposed to be that way. Okay? And the idea of privatizing it more. No, you gotta break up the privatization. They couldn't even get a handful of drugs cheaper. Have you looked at that Trump RX bullshit platform? The prices you can get better on other sites. How? How, how can the United States government not beat these other commercial sites in discount drug game? And they picked a handful of drugs like GLP1s. Like that's what we need in America really, to reinforce the idea that you don't have to do the right things to lose weight. Fine. But the price discounts sunset after like 3 months and start going up again. It was just a bullshit deal. I'm telling you, this guy doesn't know how to make deals. It's all hype. He didn't even write the book the Art of the Deal. Healthcare. Healthcare is number four. Because you had to deliver on this, you couldn't even repeal the aca. And I don't think you should, by the way. But if that's what you want to do, fine. But you couldn't even do that. You couldn't even pass the subsidies. You couldn't even break up and get a conversation going. It's a big deal. It affects MAGA disproportionately, okay? Health care is killing them. More and more of them are going to rely on Medicaid, which has given them less and less. This is a big deal. Big deal. His choices that he made action and inaction are failing these people, failing them where it counts. All right, now that takes us to number five. And number five is going to be a little controversial, okay? But I think it has to be said, and it feeds into number three, which is the institutions. Donald Trump has made it okay to be mean. He has made it okay to excuse your own actions by saying someone or something else is worse. He has made it okay to be coarse. Yes. We're seeing people on the left be violent, in a way, in pursuit of their politics. That is very bad. And this president has had attempts on his life at least three times. That is very bad. But what are the people on the left responding to? Messaging from their side and their people and how much they hate Trump. Yes, but you don't think they're responding to Trump as well? Look at the manifestos. Of course, what he's putting out there is being received. Now, I don't blame him for his own assassination attempt. That seems too much to me. But you got to blame the person who makes the attempt. You know, we all make choices, but the choices that he has made have been consistently to make us worse. He doesn't even try to unify. He literally doesn't even attempt it. He sees it as weakness. He now, more than ever, more brazenly than ever, only praises people who praise him. And it doesn't matter who they are or what they are. He doesn't care if you're a despot. It'll be great with Mohammad bin Salman, you'd give him money to my kids, give him money to my family. You give him money to me. It's good. You say nice things about me. It's okay. It's all right. It's okay that you're a murderous jihadi. It's okay. He's made that okay. Our politics has gotten worse on his watch. They do nothing. They shut down the government on a regular Basis in fact, we're in a partial shutdown right now. Nothing has gotten better and the best that he can do is say, well, it's because they hate me. Why wouldn't they? You give them every reason to hate you. Now does that work for me? No. Why? One I'm afraid of hate. I don't do it. I don't allow it. I've allowed it in to my life and it almost took me down, almost consumed me. So I don't do that. I do not give people that kind of power to make me feel that kind of way. I don't do it. But as a collective, I think it's a mistake. I think it's a mistake for the Democrats to campaign so heavily on Trump sucks. I think they should leave that to the next manifestation of the Republicans. They're the ones who are gonna try to convince everybody that Trump was the problem. The Democrats have to prove to people that they have the solutions. The problems are obvious. What's wrong is obvious and a point of consensus. Now I would say you should campaign on defeating this fifth point and by being better and being decent. Problem is Trump was very effective in exaggerating what was already taking place, which is the cheapening of our politics in pursuit of this binary battle to the bottom that isn't just alliterative, but is demonstrative of what's wrong with our democracy. So he didn't start the fire, he just blew on it like a turbocharger and made it into something more than it has ever been before. But here's the problem. We are where we are and people see harshness as strength. People see might as making right. People think, if you're talking shit, you're being tough in a way that matters. Scott Jennings say, get your finger out of my fucking face. Get your fucking finger out of my. Whatever. He said that seen as him getting tough on this 20 something year old podcaster. It isn't. I think that's horrible. I think that's juvenile. I think that's silly. I think that's stupid, frankly. But I'm wrong and it is true. And that's what the Democrats want especially. They are desperate to fight back and they want fight back. Look at how Gavin Newsom. So I don't think you can just campaign by being a positive opposite on number five. But it has destroyed. First of all, you've just corroded. You've toxified so many minds and hearts in this country, especially within the MAGA population. They believe the worst things about our government about each other. And Trump has fed all of it. He has fed the inaction in Congress. He has fed opposition as a real position. He has fed that. Insulting someone that insults are a proxy for insights. He's fed it all and it has made everything worse. And he has ultimately now, because of it, betrayed his own movement. Because he guaranteed that things got worse. He guaranteed that there would be congressional inaction. I mean, think about this. The guy triggers the War Powers Resolution with a war in Iran that he said wasn't a war. And now all they call it is a war. Now they're lying about ceasefire. What is a ceasefire? This is a ceasefire. It's not a ceasefire. They're just full of shit. I mean, literally Orwell would blush. 1984 was like realistic compared to the shit that they're doing. That's just so nuts. It's a war. 60 days triggers the War Powers Resolution and then Congress goes on vacation. I gotta tell you, I think the Democrats played this wrong too, by the way. I know they're in the minority. I know. If Johnson doesn't want to be there, why would they be there? I think that it would have been a good show. They should have stayed. They should have refused a vacation. They just went off, they just came off break. They should have stayed and said, we wanna vote on this, the 60 days. We wanna pass the windfall profit tax. How about that one? Why should these oil companies be able to make money right now? And then this guy said to me, oh, you know, it's not just such a bad thing because, you know, our energy sector is really important to our job base and everything, and we should want them making as much money as possible off the backs of Americans during an affordability crisis in the middle of a war that is spiking gas prices. That's really good for the many. I don't think so. I think Bernie Sanders is right. I think Trump should take his idea and say, yeah, let's pass the windfall profit tax. Oil companies shouldn't be doing this. I bet you Bernie would love him taking his idea. But the Democrats should have stayed and should have pushed for that. But it's still on the Republicans, cuz they're in the majority and they literally ran away. That is the state of play, of fealty to this one man and to his fortunes. That's completely compromised the fortunes of the majority of American families. Support for the Chris Cuomo project comes from ultra. So are you in the nicotine game? 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Look, the best reason the President has that Epstein hasn't been delivered on is because it was a bullshit promise in the first place. Right? It was a false premise. Right? There was no. And now we know he was murdered. And here are all the guys that were part of the human trafficking thing, that were hidden, you know, all of these things that ironically, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino and these other POD bros who are all maggots, M A G A T S were promising was bullshit. Why Trump allowed that to get connected to him, I don't know. But here's why it matters. It matters for the survivors. And I gotta tell you, Anna Paulina Luna, she can get away with this because she's a young woman. But. But she says she doesn't know about a lot of guys that we haven't heard about, but there are some women she wants under stricter scrutiny. Now, I haven't really touched that, and I'm not touching it today because I don't really know what she's talking about. She says, oh, but members of Congress do, who've gone to the scif, you know, the protected Information rooms. And the Democrats have seen it too. They know what I'm talking about. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. It certainly hasn't come out in a common way. Even looked at J Mail, I don't see it. But I'm not including Epstein. Not because it doesn't matter. Because the top five are fundamental things that matter to everyone. And Epstein matters to a lot of people. And a lot of people within MAGA have been made to care about it. But there are a lot of Americans that don't. I mean, their priorities are way more parochial. They're way more personal to them and their own families. And that's understandable. In politics, that is almost always the case. They have to work really hard to make it about something else. Culture wars are Not. Look, they can be easy to spark, but it's really hard to sustain compared to other fundamental economic machinations and mechanisms in people's lives. So that's why Epstein ain't in there, the ballroom isn't in there, because it's just another lie. You know, it was bad enough when it was gonna be all these hundreds of millions of dollars of private money with people who know what they're getting promised. That's not cynicism, that's pragmatism. This guy is doing more corrupt things right in your face. And you guys were worried about Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden looks like, you know, a patron saint of doing things the right way compared to his kids and him. But you don't give a shit. That's the hypocrisy. Okay, okay. And I'll tell you something else that is an indication of. Of trouble to come for betrayal to Maga. Tucker Carlson, he is performative and he is kooky, but he is also clever and he sees what's coming. I think the future for what used to be the Republican Party and will want to once again be the Republican Party is going to be. Trump was the bad guy. He's the admiration. We had to work with him because the people wanted him and he won power and he's our party's nominee, so he gotta do it. But we were never about him. We were quiet because we didn't agree. You can't read our silence as acquiescence. It was just, you know, kind of. We were forced into it and that's the best we could do. But we echoed it as little as possible. We're back to Christian conservatism and we're character counts, and that's us. Now, first of all, not only is that not where the country is, it's not where the country is. The country is. I don't give a shit what faith you have. I need to have faith in you that you'll get something done to make what most people agree is wrong better. That's what it's gonna be about, and that's what's gonna win. So I think they're making a bad call. But secondly, I don't think they're gonna get away with it. But that's why he's running away. 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And after you sign up, they're going to ask you how you heard. Please tell them Cuomo sent you because that is the way to get the deal. So those are your five. No particular order and but any order you put them in, it just gets worse and worse. And there was nothing but opportunity for him. There was nothing but upside. He was handed a mandate. More American people voted for Donald Trump, maybe pinching their nose, but they were so disgusted by what they saw coming from the Democrats in that process, rightly or wrongly. And he's made everything less than he could have. And we're not even halfway through. So these are the top five things that Donald Trump has done that have screwed over, destroyed what MAGA was supposed to be about. And we have no idea what comes next. But the midterms are going to be about these. I guess they could be replaced. I think he'd be hard pressed to figure something out that was more disruptive than the things that I've given you already and the tentacles that each and all have. But we'll see. But you already know more than you need to know to design a campaign to have a legendary change of power in the midterms. I'm Chris Cuomo. Thank you very much for watching. I hope this top five jives with your own reckoning. And if it does not, I hope this top five helps you expand your own reckoning. Food for thought, my brothers and sisters, thank you very much for being independents, for being critical thinkers, for buying the swag on the store that should be linked to our YouTube so that you can wear your independence and brand back against all these people that are trying to convince you and advertise to you to be a certain way. Thank you for going to YouTube and picking a subscription that works for you if you want to be top tier. Awesome. We will be having weekly zooms where we all get together. 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