I’m sure you’ve heard the old saying, Politics makes strange bedfellows. And I guess Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo could be the living embodiment of that.
Why would any Republican presidential candidate cozy up to a corrupt, degenerate Democrat like disgraced former Governor Grandma Killer, especially to praise Cuomo’s disastrous handling of the COVID pandemic?
Sure, sure. I get it.
In his quest for the 2024 nomination, Donald Trump is taking the “blow up bridges and go scorched-earth” approach.
He’ll flip-flop positions, defend the indefensible, and praise anyone if doing so can be used to attack his only current competition, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
And if that means attacking DeSantis over his handling of the COVID pandemic while praising Governor Grandma Killer, then by golly, that’s what Trump is going to do!
Here we have former President Donald Fauci Lockdown attacking DeSantis for not using the Governor Grandma Killer COVID model in Florida.
In a sense, Trump does have a point. DeSantis didn’t follow the Cuomo model, which is probably why elderly COVID patients in Florida weren’t pawned off to nursing homes where the virus could spread and kill a bunch of them. DeSantis didn’t close schools and businesses for months while making repeated appearances on his brother’s CNN show either.
It’s insane that Trump is trying to win over Republican primary voters by praising a repulsive asshole like Governor Grandma Killer.
Then again, desperation also makes for strange bedfellows.
A hell of a lot of people fled Cuomo’s lockdowns for freedom in DeSantis’ Florida.
But sure, let’s tell Republican voters that Governor Grandma Killer was the COVID lodestar while DeSantis was the real grandma killer. That’ll work!
This is an example of what Jesse Kelly refers to as The Sky is Green.
Admittedly, Trump praising California Governor Gavin Newsom was also a head-scratcher. But because I’m a New Yorker who suffered through Cuomo’s lockdowns, this repeated praise of Cuomo just boggles my mind.
And rather than ignoring Trump’s praise, Cuomo seized on it.
Why wouldn’t he? Democrats are just as eager as Trump to see DeSantis out of the way. Remember, they want a Trump nomination as much as Donald does.
So yesterday, Cuomo shared a link to a Florida Politics article about Trump’s attacks on DeSantis and tweeted:
“Donald Trump tells the truth, finally. New York got hit first and worst but New Yorkers acted responsibly. Florida’s policy of denial allowed Covid to spread and that’s why they had a very large second wave.”
What a load of bullshit. Does Cuomo think we were born yesterday? Does Trump?
Do these guys think every American suffers from amnesia? Man, the craven rewriting of history by these strange bedfellows really takes the cake.
Cuomo is the guy who sent thousands of seniors to their deaths in nursing homes, then fudged the numbers, and then lied about fudging the numbers – all the while making money off of a book about a great leader he was during COVID.
You know, I think I might be wrong. Trump and Cuomo aren’t strange bedfellows at all. There’s nothing strange about this.
Trump is what he has always been: a New York Democrat, just like Andrew Cuomo.
Sure, the two of them had a bit of a falling out when Trump ran for office as a Republican. But now, they’ve decided to kiss, and make up.
Here’s the thing. If Trump truly does believe Governor Grandma Killer did a better job during the pandemic, does that mean that if another virus makes the headlines during another hypothetical Trump presidency, Trump will make the exact same destructive decisions he made in 2020?
See, I think it might. The man has yet to acknowledge any culpability in the economic and personal destruction that was caused by the government’s COVID response. So what’s to say he wouldn’t do it all again?
I’m not sure how Trump’s praise of Cuomo is going to play among Republican primary voters. Though, I’m certain that Trump’s die-hard fans won’t give a rip.
And if Trump thinks praising Cuomo will help him among Democrat voters, he’s delusional. Democrats despise Donald Trump so much that they wouldn’t vote for him even if he danced on a rooftop with AOC or mouth-kissed Kamala Harris.
(Maybe I shouldn’t give Trump any ideas).
I just can’t see how singing the praises of a guy like Cuomo will appeal to the Republican primary voters who don’t believe that Mar-a-Lago is the center of the universe.
We’re still nine months away from the primaries, which means nine more months of Trump moving Left to attack his only viable opponent. And given Republican voters are already getting disgusted with Trump’s embrace of Democrats, Disney, Bud Light, and Cuomo, by the time we get to Iowa, Trump would be lucky if one of his rallies could fill an elementary school gymnasium.