Why Trump Talks Chaos Instead of Costs

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo breaks down why the nonstop political firestorms — from foreign crises to culture-war flashpoints — keep pulling attention away from the one issue hitting Americans hardest: the cost of living. From housing and health care to groceries, insurance, and wages, everyday affordability is squeezing families across the political spectrum, even as outrage-driven headlines dominate the conversation.Cuomo argues that these constant emergencies aren’t accidental — they reward spectacle, distraction, and zero-sum politics while real economic pressure goes unaddressed. Whether it’s Venezuela or the outrage-of-the-week at home, the result is a country fighting over everything except the problem most people actually feel every day: how expensive life has become. 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 Support our sponsors: Get 20% off LEAN, a doctor-created oral supplement for weight loss, with code CUOMO at https://takelean.com Get up to 30% off OneSkin with the code CUOMO at https://www.oneskin.co/cuomo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	I think that we just saw something that should be a uniting moment for right and left to finally do what's reasonable. Do you know what it is?
0:41.1	Will you believe it when I tell you? I think we know what we just lived that gives us an ability
0:48.5	for everybody to get on the same page of less of this and a lot more of this.
0:54.5	What is it?
0:55.2	I'll tell you.
1:03.2	Chris Cuomo here.
1:04.4	Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project.
1:06.2	So what is the thing that actually unites right and left here?
1:13.1	Need, okay?
1:15.0	I keep harping on affordability because it is right on every level for me to do so.
1:21.9	It is right because there is no other issue, certainly nothing trending on social media that affects more
1:31.2	Americans in a more dangerous way than cost structure going in a direction that is not only
1:40.0	killing the American dream. Forget about what we want. It's about choking people from the ability
1:46.9	to get what they need. Basics. More and more Americans are falling below the line of being able to
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