{"id":177615,"date":"2018-08-19T23:15:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T03:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=177615"},"modified":"2018-08-19T23:15:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T03:15:51","slug":"cuomo-says-trump-fools-country-not-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/19\/cuomo-says-trump-fools-country-not-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo says Trump fools the country, but not New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWe know who you are and we’re going to rise up and tell this nation the truth about who you are, because when the voice of division is raised, a chorus of unity must rise in response.\u201d (File Photo<\/a>: by Diana Robinson.jpg\/Wikimedia. CC BY 2.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 In a searing speech from the pulpit of a black church, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a Brooklyn congregation on Sunday that Donald Trump is a \u201cslick salesman\u201d who fooled many people in this country, but the Democrat said the Republican president hasn’t fooled New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

Cuomo spoke at Brooklyn’s First Baptist Church of Crown Heights after a week of criticism for saying America \u201cwas never that great\u201d during a bill signing. New York Republicans have demanded he apologize, and Trump tweeted that Cuomo was having a \u201ctotal meltdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

The governor seemed to counter what many observers considered a political blunder \u2014 a play on Trump’s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d signature line that Cuomo later acknowledged was \u201cinartful\u201d on his part.<\/p>\n

This time, he offered a loftier exhortation: \u201cMr. President, you are not taking this nation back in time, because we believe our best days are ahead of us, not behind us. And we will bring the light, and we will overcome, and we will vindicate this nation’s better angels together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo told the congregation that New York’s Statue of Liberty is a symbol of America’s acceptance of people of all races, beliefs, languages and lifestyles. By contrast, he said, the wall Trump wants built along the border with Mexico represents rejection of those who are different.<\/p>\n

The rest of Cuomo’s speech was peppered with a point-by-point attack on the policies, language and behaviour of a president who lost his home state in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

He hammered Trump for creating what Cuomo called a \u201cfrightening portrait\u201d of today’s America.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may be a slick salesman who fooled many people in this country, but you didn’t fool me and you didn’t fool New Yorkers,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cWe know who you are and we’re going to rise up and tell this nation the truth about who you are, because when the voice of division is raised, a chorus of unity must rise in response.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing minority communities like the Crown Heights neighbourhood, the governor noted that New York state has the strongest gun control law in the nation \u201cbecause we’re tired of seeing people getting massacred on our streets,\u201d while the president \u201cis blind to the suffering and pain of gun violence,\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo also touched on Trump’s attitude toward women, including former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, whom Trump has called a \u201cdog\u201d and a \u201clowlife\u201d after she publicly criticized him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a woman dares to speak up, then King Trump attacks her,\u201d said Cuomo, who called the president the \u201cGreat Divider in Chief.\u201d<\/p>\n

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