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The Chris Cuomo Project

3 Signs Of The Coming Political Apocalypse

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.5 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo lays out what he believes are the three signs of a coming political apocalypse: Trump’s transformation of MAGA into a movement centered on personal grievance and retribution, the rise of outsider candidates like Graham Platner who can survive scandals and scrutiny that would destroy traditional politicians, and the upheaval surrounding Scott Pelley’s firing from 60 Minutes. Cuomo argues that each story reveals a deeper truth about where American politics is headed and why the old rules no longer seem to apply.   Cuomo explains what he calls the “Platner Paradox,” why anti-establishment populism is growing on the left as well as the right, and why voters increasingly care more about authenticity and disruption than traditional qualifications. He also examines Pelley’s departure from 60 Minutes, CBS’s settlement with Trump, the pressures facing legacy media, and why he believes journalism is being forced to reinvent itself. Throughout the episode, Cuomo argues that the forces that created MAGA have not disappeared—they are evolving—and that the next political movement may be even bigger than the one that brought Trump to power. Join The Chris Cuomo Project on YouTube for ad-free episodes, early releases, exclusive access to Chris, and more: https://www.youtube.com/@chriscuomo/join Upgrade your wallet today! Get up to 40% off @Ridge during their Father’s Day Sale when you go to https://www.Ridge.com/CUOMO #Ridgepod Elevate your summer wardrobe. Go to quince.com/cuomo for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. That's quince.com/cuomo for free shipping and 365-day returns. quince.com/cuomo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Here are the three signs of the coming political apocalypse.

0:39.9

What Trump has now told you, Maga, is really about.

0:43.3

The Platner Paradox.

0:45.3

And what's going on with 60 minutes.

0:48.6

These three things hold within them the potential of what could change everything.

0:56.8

Now, when I say apocalypse, you assume I mean end of the world, right?

1:03.2

Why? The Greek gave us this word, but it really means uncovering, unveiling. The original meaning was a revelation,

1:14.5

a disclosure of something hidden. And that's the way I'm using it. It doesn't have to mean disaster,

1:20.6

but these three properties, these three dynamics, these three things will combine to mean everything in our political

1:32.1

reality, and I can explain.

1:40.1

I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. First is the easiest one to understand.

1:47.5

If you, unless you are somebody who believes that the reason that multiple prosecutors,

1:55.8

dozens of plaintiffs and accusers, multiple former business partners, multiple political players,

2:04.9

multiple media outlets, that all of this scrutiny of Donald Trump is proof of a conspiracy

2:11.0

to conceal his greatness.

2:14.3

Unless you are perverse enough, unless you have TDS deeply enough, because that's what TDS is.

2:21.6

TDS is real, Trump derangement syndrome. It's real. It shouldn't be in the DSM, which, by the way, I could have added to another sign of the apocalypse, the fact that these people in the administration want to add TDS to the DSM, to the book of diagnoses of actual

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