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Well, they're back this time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And this won't be the end of it. But nothing has changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So let's go. All right. You see and hear a man? I see and hear a metaphor for why the midterms were just handed to the Democrats. And maybe an epic fashion. The only thing James Comey needed to say that he didn't hear is one, what did he mean with 8,000, 647? Just to dismiss the absurdity. And second, thank you. Thank you for making me relevant in a way I never deserved to be. Thank you for making me a millionaire. Thank you for making me something of a martyr. Thank you for making me the next Don Lemon. Thank you. That's the only thing that was missing because, boy, what a gift the President just gave James Comey and the Democrats and in many ways, you. Because this is a new low. And look, my personal take. I don't like what James Comey did during the investigative phase against Donald Trump or what he did with Hillary Clinton. I really believe Jim Comey helped Clinton lose. Okay, a lot. But here we are. And this indictment is stupider than the first one. And it makes the case that MAGA is done. It has been abandoned by this President. And that's what the Jimmy Kimmel situation means. Also, one of the little slices of. Of high ground that MAGA could cling to was, boy, the left just cancels whatever they don't want to hear, and they don't let any voices in that they don't agree with. And they really are about censorship. Not anymore. Now it's you. Now you are silent, which is deafening, as the President of the United States obviously uses the levers of government to. To punish 20,000 employees because he doesn't like one of them at ABC, because he didn't like Jimmy Kimmel's joke. And of course, our first lady Melania is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. He just handed the midterms over. He handed it over. Why? You're not about what you said you were about. You're doing it in clumsy ways that nobody wants to have to own. And you are obviously desperate to distract us from what was supposed to matter most. The war we all signed up for. Who's gonna fix America first? I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. It's over. If you see this for what it is and you use it for what it can be, it is over. And I gotta tell you, Todd Blanch, smart guy, doing what Trump wants, but probably ruining his future in the process. You can't be taken seriously seriously standing next to this. You know that. You're a smart guy. I've interviewed you. You're the real deal. But now that makes this even more obvious and ugly. He wrote 8, 6, 4, 7 and seashells. And you think that deserves a federal indictment? Really? You see a crime in that? Really? But you don't see it when righty asshole Jack Posobich or whatever his name is, did the same thing about Biden that was different. 2022, someone well known in right wing circles, Jack poskobie, posted on x86 46. He did not take it down. He did not apologize. Mr. Comey has done both of those things. The Biden Justice Department never prosecuted him. By the standard of that grand jury, Jack Poskobie should face charges as well. Will the Justice Department pursue that case? Because they sound very similar. That's just completely not true. That's not how a grand jury does its work. They don't just look at a single image and then say, ok, yes, we'll indict, or ok, no, we won't indict. They do an investigation. The mere fact that there's a similar photo posted or a similar statement made, that's true. Every day there's comments made about President Trump, threats made against President Trump. Every one of those are not indicted. It depends on the facts of every case. Saul Wachtler, the famous and then infamous New York City Court of New York Court of Appeals justice coined the phrase, a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich with a grand jury if he wants to. And this is why he said it. This pathetic approach to what's supposed to be law and order. And you made Comey a hero and he doesn't deserve it. And you made Jimmy Kimmel a hero, and he doesn't deserve it. And you're doing it on purpose to distract us. Not only are you the opposite of what you promised to be here, which was no more lawfare, it is wrong to prosecute your political opponents, and it's even more wrong when you use the levers of government to manufacture it. Remember all that? Remember how pissed off you were about them prosecuting Trump for things he did, but things that weren't worth the prosecutorial effort, that weren't a great call of prosecutorial discretion. Remember how pissed off you were? Never again. Never again. This is worse than anything that was done to Trump and you know it. Because that's what Trump does, is he goes too far. Because all he is is in the business of getting the reaction. He's not a change maker. He doesn't really have an agenda. He just has personal motivation of self aggrandizement. He divides on purpose, for effect. Oh, well, that's just your opinion. It's actually not my opinion. It's Bill O'Reilly's. He said it to me on News Nation. Trump does use divisive rhetoric. It's part of his. It's part of his presentation. It gets him attention. It worked in 16. I know, all right, but you did. You let Vance off on it. And Vance said, oh, he does it. But I would have brought in two examples of divisive rhetoric and said not to try to gotcha, but to see if Vance has perspective on it. So there it is. In his lust and haste to take a shot at me about my interview, he gave it all away. He gave it all away. 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for Donald Trump to go after anyone because of what they say, being intentionally divisive or potentially hurtful to our social fabric is laughable. Risible, as the fancy people would say. The first lady had every right to say this. Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn't comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening. She has every right to say it. Is she right to say it? Maybe. Maybe. That is a clear eyed criticism of Kimmel. Certainly it could be a accurate take of how she feels. Kimmel's comedy affects her family, but the lack of self awareness. You're married to Donald Trump. You can let go of his hand for all to see, but you are hugging up the hypocrisy. You understand? And look, I don't want to make the first lady relevant. She wasn't elected. I don't even know that she signed up for this to be honest. But how can you talk about somebody having hateful and violent rhetoric intended to divide our country and not start with your husband. What are you thinking? I guess you're not. I guess you people believe that you can just say whatever you want that triggers people and have no accountability for it. But you're wrong. You're dead wrong. And the second reason has nothing to do with Melania and everything to do with Donald, which is Fix America First. The midterms are about Fix America first. The many in this country, their mind is fixated on fixing America first because the crisis is real and they know you're trying to distract from it because they know you have no ideas. They know that you don't know how. You have no solutions, only distractions. They all know it now. You literally went to war with a despotic regime in Iran under false pretenses because they're not weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. That's a bullshit lie. Everybody knows they're bad. It's not what this is about. This is about you not being able to deal with what's happening at home, not being able to deal with Epstein, not being able to deal with the economy. You saw this as easier killing American troops and who knows who else, getting us into a situation where now we're running out of weapons. Thank you, Pete Hagseth. Thank you, Donald Trump. So now, if somebody gets the balls, the minerals to come at us, they now know that our inventories are down, that we wasted on a regime that you knew you weren't going to replace in the first place. It was all supposed to be about this. This is the war we signed up for. Fix America First. Wow. Jimmy Kimmel, in no way funny, as attested to by his terrible ratings, made a statement on his show that's really shocking. He showed a fake video of the first lady, like they were sitting in his studio listening to him and Melania and said, you're an expectant widow. And a day later, a lunatic tried entering the ballroom. You want to hear something about that lunatic one? He's a lunatic. So that's why I don't believe Nora o' Donnell should have been investing in his manifesto. It was just a way of giving a middle finger to Trump. She should have just owned it. Oh, you thought it was about you. That was her being afraid of his reproach. She's not a real one either. There's so many phonies in this, so many people who are just playing the game. And now I know that that's frustrating to you. You're gonna be like, wait, wait, wait. I Thought you were with me. Now you're on his side. No, I'm about right and wrong. It's wrong to read the ravings of a madman just to insult the president and then back away like you didn't mean it. Have the balls to keep that same energy. You want to go at them and say, I think you're a pedophile. I think this. So I'm going to use as a proxy the ravings of a lunatic, but then I'm going to go at it with you. She didn't do that. Why? I don't know. You tell me. It doesn't matter to me. Why? What does matter is that everybody's playing you. They're all playing the game of provocation and rage. Bait for clicks and for resonance. Because that's what's rewarded. Trump thinks he's going to be rewarded for what he's doing to Kimmel. Trump thinks he's going to be rewarded for what he's doing to Comey, and he is. He's going to be rewarded with one of the biggest defeats in the midterms that we've ever seen. Because people want this. And instead they're getting this. And I'll tell you something. Trump puts out that video of Obama, President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes and all the MAGA folk defended, right? Just like they all do. They just like they did with this. And him obviously giving comfort to white supremacists now suing the Southern Poverty Law center as if they created white supremacist organizations. And we know why. Because he's about ugly division, period. Okay? And they protect him, but now they own him. And they will own the beating in the midterms. And the irony is that so many of those who are defending this jackassery are right about what's wrong in the country and wanting to see disruption of norms that were abnormal in terms of getting us where we want to be and changing the institutions and changing the use and lack of abuse of power. They were right about that. They were just wrong about him being able to fix it. But now they own it. And not in a stupid gotcha way because they won't admit they're wrong, but because they're refusing to be authentic to what is right and standing by that. And now they're going to get crushed. They're going to take a beating, and Trump's going to try to say that it's not about him, but it's all about him and this fixing America first. And I really hope The Democrats. Don't forget this piece. Trump sucks. Fine. Trump is destroying. Trump is making everything worse. Fine, fine, fine. But how are you going to make it better? Don't forget this piece. Don't forget this piece. Trump is handing it to you the same way you handed it to him. By allowing Biden to say he'd run again when we all knew he wasn't up to it or should have known he wasn't up to it. When you shut down your primary process and basically made a case that Trump was bad for democracy. When you were denying democracy in your own party, when you forced Kamala Harris and yeah, I get that Biden may have forced you to force Kamala Harris. And you gave them the immigration issue through your missing malfeasance. You gave it to Trump. You gave him a chunk of people who'd been your voters for two generations because you fought for the interests of the many in the workforce instead of the few who benefit from a stilted system of choosing corporations in the top over everybody else in every way possible when it's not even necessary, let alone helpful. But now he's giving it back to you. 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I've been through worse. But they don't even see how they are making people who don't even deserve it. Jimmy Kimmel doesn't deserve. Forget about the criticism. He doesn't deserve this platforming, this priority. He doesn't. But you just gave it to him. Neither did Don Lemon. You gave it to him. Now, I'll tell you what, Ms. Ford may have deserved it because she's a real citizen journalist who's going out there and doing her thing and focusing on her community and the issues that she thinks matters. And yeah, there's a heavy advocacy aspect to her work, but that's okay. I think she's pretty transparent about it. And she deserved the platform that fighting back against his indictment will get her. But, you know, ultimately it goes to Don because the media chose him to make him their hero, which was stupid, but we do stupid things. Comey does not deserve high ground. He did stupid shit as the director of the FBI and he hurt Hillary Clinton when he should have shut his mouth, and he didn't. But now he's got high ground because you're going after him for seashells. You're going after him for seashells. You're going after Kimmel for being divisive when you pardoned an admitted felon, when you took us to war over, when you're cratering our economy with tariffs that were illegal, that you knew were illegal. And now you're giving this guy high ground. And all of it is a gift because instead of Fix America first, you decided to put the fix into the American proposition. And the fix was your corruption and your ham fisted approach to doing things and overdoing things. And now you're giving it to the Democrats. Do they deserve it? Doesn't matter. It's a binary system. And just like they gave it to you, you sure as hell didn't deserve it. But the idea that people voted for Donald Trump to deal with the economy and he has only dealt it worse blows. And if you don't believe that you got problems, you shouldn't be allowed to drive, because that's what every relevant metric tells you. But that's why you voted for him. And now you're defending him doing the opposite. If you voted for Donald Trump because you didn't like how they prosecuted him. And guess what? I didn't like how they prosecuted him in New York either. I thought the DA's case, I thought the AG's case were not worth bringing. Not that he didn't do those things, but this nobody's above the law thing, that's. It's a. It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything. One, it's not true. Right? But prosecutorial discretion is a thing too. They don't make every case they can make. They make the cases that they think serve the public interest. And I don't think it served the public interest. And in fact, you emboldened Trump. But I do think he rigged his books. I do think he tried to hide women and deals to help his and benefit his campaign. But I don't think there were cases worth making. But I think he did it. And I know that that's confusing and frustrating to some of you, but you got to think about the greater good. You wound up empowering him the same way he just empowered Comey, the same way he's empowering Kimmel. And what the real losers here are the people who sit by silently when they know it's wrong. It was wrong when they did it to him, but it's not wrong now. That's vengeance, not justice. Do you understand? That's vengeance, not justice. It's not law and order. Right? It's I'm in charge of the law, so I will make the orders. And the orders are all self serving and shallow and stupid. And we know it and you know it. Everybody knows it. And that's what you should be seeing. Not James Comey. Not the man, the metaphor, not Jimmy Kimmel, not the jokes. Right, not the jokes. The true jest is them thinking the American people will go for this. You are using the FCC to go after a company to get them to fire somebody because you don't like what he says. What is a more profound insult to free speech than that? Well, the FCC's job is to make sure. To make sure what? To make sure the quality of a broadcast show is what? In line with American values. Really? Really. Donald Trump. Why Isn't the FCC going after Donald Trump and anybody who broadcasts anything he says? Boy, he's president. Is that how he acts? Is that how he acts? Putting out a poster of him looking like some kind of overstuffed man in Black holding an AK47 with bombs going off behind him? That's how he practices politics with the regime in Iran. You think that should pass FCC muster? I don't. You see what I'm saying? This is a bullshit standard. This is free speech. Everybody knows it. It's free speech all day long. It's censorship all day long. It's not even a close call. And. And you say you're supposed to be against this and you sit in quiet and now you've given a gift and the Democrats must grasp it. Grasp it and don't be what you oppose. Stop with the cancel culture. Stop with the extremism. Get extreme about fixing America first. Get obsessed with this. Get obsessed with the ideas. I'll give you a few. Would you like them?
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it is legal and practical to say corporate tax rates will be in part delineated on the basis of what percentage of profit and increased productivity goes to the workers. Is that illegal? Nope. Is it wrong? Didn't used to be. That's the big difference in our economy. You know this, right? Yes, innovation. But there was a shift in the 70s and into the 80s. It exploded in the 80s. It was called the stock market. Companies had been traded on what is called book value. Okay, Book value is assets, liabilities. The number at the bottom, that's your book value. That was a little bit of a vig for goodwill, for potential going forward. But then they shifted and they made Wall street basically a casino. And now companies would trade almost exclusively on the idea of P E ratio, which is the price to the underlying equity value as a multiple of that. Depending on the industry and the company, the multiple could be whatever the market wanted it to be. So back in the old days, companies rewarded workers for increased profit and productivity, seeing how they were the ones who were generating it and they would up pay accordingly. Then they shifted and they would take those rewards and give them to their investors. And then when what became the precious commodity for the success of a company became the measurement by the stock market of how much more your stock price could increase, the people who became most important were no longer the people who were driving the productivity, but selling it. So the C suite became more important than the workers. And look, the management had always made more than labor. That's not the point. The point is how much more and on what basis. So you went from them making a lot more to exponentially, ridiculously more and the workers making less. Why? Because the value to the company was the investors being impressed. And you needed me. You needed that whiz kid cfo, CEO, the C suites. You got to get him. You see what he did on that last company? You see how he changed their stock price? You got to get him because he can juice it. So I started getting the huge benefits. That's what changed. It was a choice. It's not capitalism or socialism. It's a choice. And I'm saying now we need to make different choices. You can't just say to the corporations, make the choices the way you used to. Don't, don't reward the Wall street. Reward the Main Street. Give it to them. Because they won't and they don't have to. But you can condition what you do for them through government taxes, regulations. You could change how companies get treated on the basis of how they treat their workers. There's nothing illegal with that. You may not like it. We should debate it and let the best ideas win. But you could do it. Absolutely. You could do it. You could reward companies for what they do with their employees. And you can tax companies for what they do with their employees. Absolutely. And if you don't think so, let's litigate it and see. But I've done the research and it's really a no brainer. But you gotta have the will, you gotta have the obsession, you gotta have the focus. But instead we're talking about chicks with dicks and comey and Kimmel because they're all cuz. Because we're crazy. But see the game, see the opportunity, see the gift. Because it is there right in front of you. That's why I'm selling the swag to get you to brand the change that we need to see that the many want that we signed up for that MAGA was supposed to be about that. No, Kings is about the biggest populist movement in the modern history of this country is about. The two parties are desperate for you to not see it. They are desperate for you to be distracted from it. Trump sucks. They want to be enough on the left, right. The left is crazy. We're going to attack everybody is what. They want to be enough on the right because this is hard. Don't let them get away with what's easy for them. That makes it hard for us. Don't let the Democrats forget this piece. They're going to get the reward in the midterms, but what are they going to do with it? It's got to be this. No, we want to impeach a new investigate, then you are being what you oppose. You are asking for more of this inaction and inertia on the issues that matter to the many. No, they have to impeach Trump, but they can't remove him. Why? That's the definition of insanity. No, no, no. We have to. We have to go after all his people. That's what we're living through now. When does it end? When does it be about more than the short term gratification of one side versus another, instead of the satisfaction of the many and moving the country in a direction? I mean, I get it, but it's not justice, it's vengeance. And they were saying the same things that you guys on the left are saying now. No, no, gotta go after him, gotta go after him. We gotta go after Fauci, gotta go after Cuomo, gotta go after Biden, gotta go after this, gotta go after that. And it fucked them. That's what we're seeing right now, the fuckery. Don't make the same mistake. Take the gift, use it to fix America first. Be obsessed with that. Win the battle of ideas on better ideas, not which is worse. Everything is under attack. All the rules are under attack, all the institutions are under attack because that's what works. But the President is giving you an opportunity to change the reward structure. Instead of what you can tear down, it's what you can build up. As Pop used to say, may rest in peace. Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a good man and woman to build one. Who wants to build. So America wants. We know it. In every poll, it gets drowned out by social media because the algorithms are designed to distract us and to provoke us and to outrage us. See it, don't allow it, don't reward it. Fix America first. Take the gift of them indicting comey, of them canceling Kimmel and using government to do it by threatening the license of One of the biggest broadcast networks, because they don't like the joke. Take that gift. Otherwise they're going to keep taking what makes us who we are because they don't give a shit about our greatness, they give a shit about theirs. And they see it almost exclusively as a function of how bad they can make the other people look. We are losing bigly, but better days are right there. Victory is right there. It's simple. It's not easy, but it's simple. Fix America first. Trump sucks, okay? But this is better. And you can get to do both because he's making the case against himself for you with Comey and Kimmel and going into Iran illegally and foolishly with no real exit strategy that we're all watching in real time. 42% increase to the defense budget you want. Are you kidding me? No, he's not. Take the gift. Don't stop with he's an idiot. Take the gift and show how you're not an idiot. Show how you're better. Make different choices for who gets rewarded and on what basis. In our corporations. Go to war with the health care companies. Go to war with them. Go to war with them. You've got to change. You're making people sick. You're taking advantage. Here. The many matter, not just the few. The needs of the many must come before the wants of the few. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one, not one over the many. That's not what the phrase is. That's not what the coin says. See the gift. Take the gift. Don't get obsessed with the gift. Get obsessed with using the gift. Comey isn't the end. He's the beginning. Kimmel isn't the end. He's the beginning. Free speech being censored isn't the biggest the end. It's the beginning because this is a battle to the bottom of vengeance and false vindication and corruption. In your face. MAGA is done. It has been abandoned by the people who benefited from it and got into power on it. And now there's opportunity for better. Fix America first. See it. See it. I didn't spend 35, 40 minutes here, or whatever it is, just bashing how bad the case is, because there's a lot more important aspects to this than that. Of course I can argue it's free speech all day for Kimmel. Of course, I can argue this is a frivolous case and there's no real crime to organizing seashells. That's easy. Proving that they faked the urgency that Iran was weeks Away from nukes is easy. Go look up grassy G R A S S I the head of the IAEA and what he said, he didn't say that. Of course they want a nuke. But that doesn't mean that you have to go in this way right now. And that's how you're gonna get it done. Cuz clearly you haven't. Okay, you said it would take two weeks. Where it's 60 days, thank God. Now Congress has to act on it. They'll probably vote to extend. And those who do are giving you a gift because they are fucked. See the gift, use the gift. Fix America first. Can I get an AM Foreign. 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Host: Chris Cuomo
Date: April 30, 2026
In this solo episode of The Chris Cuomo Project, Chris Cuomo delivers a cutting critique of Donald Trump’s recent actions—specifically, Trump’s efforts to indict James Comey over a social media post involving seashells, and attempts to silence late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Cuomo argues that these moves have inadvertently turned both Comey and Kimmel into heroes on the left, handing the Democrats a valuable political gift ahead of the midterms. Throughout, Cuomo urges his audience to look past partisan vengeance and focus on the real issue: fixing America’s core problems rather than getting caught up in cycles of political retribution.
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“You’re married to Donald Trump. … But how can you talk about somebody having hateful and violent rhetoric intended to divide our country and not start with your husband? What are you thinking? I guess you’re not.” (11:36)
(06:40–19:30)
"He’s just doing it because it works. But it doesn't work anymore. Doesn’t work with Comey. Works for Comey. Doesn’t work with Kimmel. Works for Kimmel.” (09:05)
“Oh, well, that's just your opinion. It's actually not my opinion. It's Bill O'Reilly's. He said it to me on NewsNation: Trump does use divisive rhetoric… It worked in 16.” (08:20)
(13:50–19:00)
“You literally went to war with a despotic regime in Iran under false pretenses… This is about you not being able to deal with what's happening at home.” (14:38)
(22:45–27:00)
“If you voted for Donald Trump because you didn't like how they prosecuted him, and guess what? I didn't like how they prosecuted him in New York either… But you wound up empowering him the same way he just empowered Comey.” (25:55)
“What is a more profound insult to free speech than that?” (26:40)
(27:38–33:00)
"Companies rewarded workers for increased profit and productivity… then they shifted and gave those rewards to their investors." (28:40)
“It’s not capitalism or socialism. It’s a choice. And I’m saying now we need to make different choices.” (29:40)
(33:00–41:00)
“If you are asking for more of this inaction and inertia, that’s the definition of insanity.” (35:52)
“The needs of the many must come before the wants of the few. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one—not one over the many… See the gift. Take the gift. Don’t get obsessed with the gift. Get obsessed with using the gift. Comey isn’t the end. He’s the beginning… MAGA is done. It has been abandoned by the people who benefited from it and got into power on it. And now there’s opportunity for better. Fix America first.” (39:48–40:45)
“Thank you for making me relevant in a way I never deserved to be. Thank you for making me a millionaire. Thank you for making me something of a martyr. Thank you for making me the next Don Lemon. Thank you. That's the only thing that was missing because, boy, what a gift the President just gave James Comey and the Democrats and in many ways, you.” (02:10)
"They don't make every case they can make. They make the cases that they think serve the public interest. And I don't think it served the public interest. And in fact, you emboldened Trump." (25:32)
“I'm selling the swag to get you to brand the change that we need to see—that the many want—that we signed up for; that MAGA was supposed to be about.” (33:50)
“Victory is right there. It's simple. It's not easy, but it's simple. Fix America first. Trump sucks, okay? But this is better. And you can get to do both because he's making the case against himself for you.” (39:00)
Chris Cuomo’s tone combines urgency, exasperation, and a call for higher-minded politics. He frequently breaks the “fourth wall” to speak directly to listeners, challenging both the right and the left to rise above cycles of shallow partisanship and focus on systemic reform. Cuomo’s language is direct, unsparing, and often laced with sarcasm and rhetorical flourishes.
If you’re searching for a substantive, independent assessment of why the culture wars and political retribution cycles are failing America—and a plea to both parties to focus on real solutions—this episode delivers. Cuomo argues that Trump’s heavy-handed tactics have backfired, making heroes of his critics and giving Democrats an opening—one they must use for actual, lasting reform, not empty vengeance. The real path forward, Cuomo insists, is a return to “Fix America First”—through policies that serve the many, not just the few.
Final rally:
“See the gift. Take the gift. Fix America first.” (40:30)
This summary was produced to help you engage with the episode’s substance, insight, and urgency without missing the core arguments or most memorable moments.