Chris Cuomo SLAMS Trump for Telling Struggling Families to Cut Back

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo responds to Donald Trump’s remark that “maybe a kid can have just two dolls, not 20” and says the message isn’t wrong—it’s just aimed at the wrong people. Instead of telling working families to cut back, Cuomo argues, Trump should be speaking to the billionaires and corporate class who’ve grown wealthier by shifting burden onto everyone else. He breaks down how capitalism without responsibility has hollowed out the middle class, why economic burden is falling on the wrong side of the system, and how Trump’s populist message continues to resonate—despite missing the real target. Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Join Chris Ad-Free On Substack: http://thechriscuomoproject.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	President Trump just said the smartest thing he's ever said, but he said it to the wrong person.
0:06.2	What am I talking about?
0:07.7	I'll tell you.
0:15.7	Chris Cuomo here.
0:16.9	Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project.
0:18.8	So the president said it, and then it was echoed by his
0:22.2	top money guy, Scott Bessent. What did he say? Here it is. Somebody said, oh, the shelves are
0:29.4	going to be open. Well, maybe the children will have two dollars instead of 30 dollars, you know,
0:34.6	and maybe the two dollars will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
0:38.4	What was his point? The American president is saying, hey, maybe you can do with a little less.
0:45.6	Maybe it's time for a little shared sacrifice. Maybe you don't need to have as much as you want
0:52.2	to be happy in America. That's his point, right? Resonates with
0:57.2	some people. And then Scott Bessent said this. This reporter behind me was quite snarky the other
1:03.8	day when President Trump talked about the girl having two dolls. And he said, well, what president didn't take the question, but he said,
1:12.7	what would you tell that girl? I said, I would tell that young girl that you will have a better
1:17.8	life than your parents, that you and your family, thanks to President Trump, can now be confident again
1:23.9	that you will have a better life than your parents, which working class Americans
1:27.7	had abandoned that idea. Your family will own a home. You will be able to advance. You will
1:34.4	have a good education. You will have economic freedom. That's what we are advancing.
1:40.3	Same point, right? You don't have to have ten dolls. Maybe you have one nice one. You know who used to
1:46.5	say that? My Italian relatives, buy one good jacket. You don't have to have three or four. You just
1:53.1	keep wearing the one good one. Why? Quality over quantity. But you know where that doesn't really go?
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