A viral video was released yesterday that showed an incident between CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and an unidentified man where Cuomo became enraged by the man calling him Fredo, a term that was used in the 1972 movie, the Godfather. President Trump shared a pair of Tweets today calling out his lack of civility.
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Last night, Donald Trump Jr. shared the same post from Ryan Saavedra and said:
I assume @cnn not available for comment. Imagine their coverage of this if they were a real news organization?
Shockingly, CNN spokesman Matt Dornic shot back by claiming that the use of Fredo was an ethnic slur.
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It didn’t take Trump Jr. to find an answer to that claim in the form of a video where a guest on Cuomo’s show used that “slur” to describe Trump Jr. himself with Cuomo not doing anything to condemn the use of the phrase.
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Conservative political commentator Wayne Dupree, who is African-American, questioned how it could be viewed as an ethnic slur and took them to task for making the suggestion.
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All of this adds up to another public relations disaster for Cuomo and CNN.