Trump rips Andrew Cuomo as ‘lowlife’ over COVID-19 vaccine doubts

President Trump ripped Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a “lowlife” on Tuesday for expressing doubt over the safety of a potential federally approved COVID-19 vaccine.

The president called in to “Fox and Friends” and weighed in on Cuomo’s comments from Monday.

“When a politician — a real lowlife — when a politician is willing to say that and kill people and scare people from using something that’s going to be great and really solve a big problem, they ought to be ashamed of themselves,” Trump said.

Then he quipped, “He probably listens to his brother Fredo” — a reference to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who flew into a rage last year after a man called him Fredo Corleone, the ineffective son from “The Godfather.”

Trump also rapped the New York governor over his botched handling of the coronavirus outbreak in nursing homes that left 6,500 dead.

“So he’s going to put together the same group of people that he probably used to put together in the nursing homes, where 11,000 people died because they put heavily infected people in with the general population?” Trump said, using the figure put out in August by the Associated Press, which found that nursing home deaths were undercounted.

“Is that the people he’s going to use to help us out?”

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi fired back at the president’s comments.

“219,000 people have died because of Donald Trump’s pandemic incompetence,” he said. “He can try to change the subject as much as wants to away from his own failing incompetence, it’s not going to work. New Yorkers aren’t stupid. Americans aren’t stupid. Enjoy your retirement in Florida in two weeks.”

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