CNN's Chris Cuomo mocked after attempt to disprove Trump's phone theory with call to mom fails
CNN's Chris Cuomo blasts heckler for 'Godfather' comparison
CNN host goes off on heckler in viral confrontation; reaction and analysis from 'The Five.'
CNN host Chris Cuomo was mocked Thursday after his attempt to disprove President Trump’s theory about how phones work backfired on live television.
David Holmes, the political counsel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, testified during Thursday’s impeachment hearing that he overheard a would-be damning phone call between Trump and European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland. Holmes said he “could hear the president’s voice through the earpiece of the phone,” which was not on speakerphone.
Trump, in real-time, tweeted his skepticism.
“I have been watching people making phone calls my entire life. My hearing is, and has been, great. Never have I been watching a person making a call, which was not on speakerphone, and been able to hear or understand a conversation. I’ve even tried, but to no avail,” Trump tweeted. “Try it live!”
CNN’s Cuomo took the president up on the challenge and called his mother during coverage of the impeachment hearing.
Because we are in the absolute dumbest timeline, Chris Cuomo calls his mom on live TV to disprove Trump's claim and demonstrate to viewers that bystanders can hear a caller on the other line...and we only hear his mother when he puts her on speaker.
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“Let's just play with that for a second. Mom can you hear me?” Cuomo asked, without receiving a response from his mother.
“I’m with Dana Bash… can you just say hello? Mom? She probably can’t hear me,” Cuomo said as he struggled to hear whether or not his mother could hear him.
Cuomo then put the device on speakerphone.
“Mom, can you hear me?” he asked again.
“I hear you, when you talk to me I hear you,” his mother responded.
The “Cuomo Prime Time” namesake then turned off speakerphone and could no longer hear his mother — just as Trump explained is typically the case.
A frustrated Cuomo then hung up the phone and critics quickly lampooned the moment.
“CNN’s Cuomo trying to prove you can hear a conversation on another person’s cell phone (while on speaker, mind you) is the most ill-advised thing we’ve witnessed on live TV since Marcia Clark had OJ try the gloves on,” The Hill media reporter Joe Concha wrote.
Concha wasn’t the only person to mock Cuomo on social media.
There’s a distinct “Chris Darden making OJ try on the gloves” vibe to that Cuomo clip
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Going to be hilarious when House doesn't convict Trump because of Chris Cuomo.
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Chris Cuomo is trying to demonstrate in a phone call with his mom that you can easily hear phones not on speaker phone and no one on the panel can hear it lol
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CNN Chris Cuomo fails at his speaker phone demonstration on live TV.
Oh boy.
Don't be on our side, ok Chris??? pic.twitter.com/A50nH3Ds5D
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I see Chris Cuomo has solidified himself as the stupidest Cuomo once again.
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Hard to find a TV news clip that more perfectly encapsulates the problem with the media in 2019 than this from CNN today - from Chris Cuomo calling his mom and proving the exact opposite point he's trying to make, to John Dean's conspiracy theory, to everything in between.
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I found it totally believable that Holmes could hear Trump’s conversation until Cuomo tried to prove it! Now I’m skeptical!
What an imbecile. twitter.com/DanielleMisiak…
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The CNN host is the younger brother of Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York. He made news earlier this year for threatening a man who taunted him with the nickname "Fredo," a reference to Fredo Corleone, the weak and facile brother in the movie “The Godfather.”
Several critics revisited the “Fredo” controversy when mocking the failed phone stunt.
Chris Cuomo really just had his mom on the phone to demonstrate it is possible to overhear the conversation—proving the point that witnesses actually overheard calls regarding Ukraine.
Nobody hears it.
Fredo really is the biggest clown.pic.twitter.com/tjDm0BqbTK
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Michael Corleone's Fredo is a rocket scientist compared to our Fredo.....
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Earlier this year, CNN’s Jim Acosta was also mocked when a stunt backfired after he posted a video that was meant to downplay Trump's claims of a border crisis — but ended up supporting the president’s argument that border barriers improve security.
“Here are some of the steel slats that the president’s been talking about,” Acosta said while reporting from the southern border. “But as we’re walking along here, we’re not seeing any kind of imminent danger.”
Acosta then declared there was “no sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about” and it was “tranquil” near him. The debacle prompted then-press secretary Sarah Sanders to thank the CNN reporter for explaining “why walls work.”
Fox News’ Alex Pappas contributed to this report.
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