Nov. 4, 2025

Trump Endorses Cuomo, Threatens NYC, and Misses the Point Entirely

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Donald Trump has officially endorsed Andrew Cuomo for New York City mayor — yes, the same Cuomo who resigned in disgrace. Patrick Gutfield breaks down how the president’s new political strategy seems to be “find the least likable guy in the room and back him.” Plus: Trump’s threats to defund cities that vote wrong, his bizarre 60 Minutes interview about running for a third term, his sympathy for Prince Andrew (yikes), and the death of Dick Cheney — the vice president who once shot his friend and still somehow got an apology. A full week of “very normal” American politics.

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Calaruga Shark media from America where if you don't vote

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today then stfu. This is valid. Yeah, why are you

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listening to some dope podcast when you could be voting?

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Go vote. I'm Patrick Guttfield and Donald Trump has endorsed

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Andrew Cuomo for New York City mayor. Yes, that Andrew Cuomo,

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the guy who resigned in disgraced three years ago. Trump

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looked at the field of candidates and thought, you know

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who New York needs. The nipple ring guy. Let me

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back up. There's a mayoral race happening in New York

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and the front runner is a Democratic socialist named Zorn Mamdani.

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Trump is not a fan. He posted on truth Social

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Monday night, telling voters they have no choice but to

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vote for Cuomo, saying he is capable of it. Mam

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Donnie is not, which is quite the endorsement. Vote for

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this guy, he might do. Okay. Now, Trump's playing hardball.

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He's threatening to send only the very minimum federal funding

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to New York if Mamdanni wins. New York gets seven

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point four billion dollars in federal money this fiscal year.

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But Trump's saying if a politician he doesn't like gets elected.

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That could change. Nothing says democracy like the president threatening

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to bankrupt cities that vote wrong. Trump called Mamdannie a

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communist in a TV interview Sunday. He said, if you

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have a communist running New York, all you're doing is

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wasting the money you're sending there, which is rich coming

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from a guy who literally gold plated his toilets. If

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anyone knows about wasting money, it's Trump. Mamdani, for his part,

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rejects the communist label. He calls himself a democratic socialist

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and joked in one interview that he's kind of like

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a Scandinavian politician, only browner. He responded to Trump's funding

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threat by calling it what it is, a threat. It

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is not the law. Correct. The p sident doesn't actually

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get to defund cities based on vibes. So Trump's out

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here endorsing Cuomo, a man who left office amid multiple

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scandals to stop a Democratic socialist from winning. The Trump

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administration has been trying to cut federal funding to democratic

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areas for a while now, but this is next level

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vote how I want, or I'll starve your city of resources.

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Very normal democracy stuff. The president is threatening to withhold

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billions from his own hometown unless they elect the guy

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who resigned in disgrace. That's where we are now. Andrew

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Cuomo is somehow the compromise candidate. President Trump sat down

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with Nora O'Donnell on sixty minutes this weekend, and he

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was in quite the mood. The interview happened at mar

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a Lago, which is Spanish for my lawyers live here now.

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Trump spent a good portion of the interview praising CBS's

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new leadership, specifically Barry Weiss, who was recently named editor

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in chief of CBS News. He called her a great person,

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which is interesting considering he doesn't actually know her. That's

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very on brand Trump praising someone he's never met is

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like me endorsing a restaurant I've only seen from the highway. Now.

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Trump also took time to discuss the twenty twenty four

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election and whether he'd run for a third term. When

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O'Donnell asked about his plans, Trump said, I don't even

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think about it, which is the same thing I say

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when someone asks if I've been eating birthday cake for breakfast.

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Technically true, but also not really. And then naturally, Trump

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brought up the twenty twenty election. Again, he said it

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was rigged and that a lot of people say when

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it's rigged, you're allowed to do it again, which is

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not how anything works. That's not a legal principle. You

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can't just replay elections like they're a bad call in

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the NFL. Trump also used the interview to take shots

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at potential Democratic candidates. He went after Gavin Newsom without

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using his name, saying California has been ruined and destroyed.

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Then he called Representative Jasmine cross It a low IQ

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person and said Alexandria Ocazio Cortez was shreaming and acting

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like a crazy person. Very presidential stuff. The interview also

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addressed Trump's lawsuit against Keys over their editing of a

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Kamala Harris interview. Trump claimed Paramount settled for sixteen million dollars,

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though the details of that settlement remained murky. He said

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sixty Minutes paid me a lot of money for taking

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out Harris's bad answer and putting in a new one.

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Trump concluded by saying the changes at CBS are the

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greatest thing that's happened in a long time to a

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free and open and good press. So to recap Trump

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doesn't know if he'll run again. He definitely thinks twenty

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twenty was rigged, and he's thrilled about the new management

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at the network. He just sued another perfectly normal Sunday

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night in America. Dick Cheney has died at eighty four.

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Cheney was Vice President under George W. Bush from two

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thousand and one to two thousand and nine. And he

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wasn't your typical VP who just shows up to funerals

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and breaks Senate ties. This guy was running things. He

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basically had his own branch of government. Most vice presidents

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get in office and maybe a fruit basket. Cheney got

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his own foreign policy. He was the main guy pushing

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for the Iraq war. Convinced everyone that the Saddam Hussein

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had weapons of mass destruction spoiler alert, he didn't. Turned out,

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the most destructive thing in Iraq was our presence there.

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The intelligence was wrong, but hey, we were already there,

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so might as well redecorate. Before that, Cheney had quite

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the resume. He was a congressman from Wyoming in the

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nineteen eighties, defense secretary for the first President Bush, and

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before all that, he worked his way up from congressional

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fellow to White House Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford.

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Not bad for a guy who dropped out of college,

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though to be fair, he eventually went back. You know

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you've made it when you can skip college and still

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end up running the Pentagon. The Bush Cheney dynasty didn't

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back Trump, which a few years ago would have been unthinkable.

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But here we are. The man who once accidentally shot

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his friend in the face while hunting and got the

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friend to apologize for it decided Trump was where he

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drew the line. Cheney was considered the most powerful vice

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president in American history. He didn't just advise the president.

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He essentially ran the transition, crafted energy policy, and spent

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eight years trying to expand executive authority. Most vps are

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there to look serious at state dinners. Cheney was there

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to actually run the state. Portions of Today's show were

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made with the help of AI