Photos Courtesy of The White House and Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of the Governor
President Trump was born in Jamaica Estates, while Gov. Cuomo’s childhood home was in Hollis.
By Michael V. Cusenza
Two native sons of the World’s Borough have been slugging it out in a world-class war of words with neither Queens king showing any signs of throwing in the towel.
President Donald Trump, a Jamaica Estates product, torched Hollis’ Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a recent political faux pas.
“How does a politician, Cuomo, known for pushing people and businesses out of his state, not to mention having the highest taxes in the U.S., survive making the statement, WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT? Which section of the sentence is worse?” Trump posted to his favorite social media platform, Twitter, before adding, “When a politician admits that ‘We’re not going to make America great again,’ there doesn’t seem to be much reason to ever vote for him. This could be a career threatening statement by Andrew Cuomo, with many wanting him to resign-he will get higher ratings than his brother Chris!”
Cuomo dusted himself off the digital mat, firing back with, “We know how tough Trump is: hiding behind tweets & ripping babies from their mothers’ arms Let’s get something straight: America is great because it rejects your hate-filled agenda of bigotry & sexism Ny’ers have your number @realDonaldTrump & will fight you all day Bring it on.”
The Archbishop Molloy High School product wasn’t done.
“We are in a fight for the soul of this country, and I’m going to fight with our President of the United States for the soul of this country,” Cuomo declared on Sunday. “Now this is not a political fight. This is not about Democrats or Republicans. It’s about our values, it’s about our beliefs, it’s about our character, it’s about our heart, it’s about our soul. Because after watching Mr. Trump for a year and a half and looking at his government policies and looking at his 14,800 tweets that he does, you see the outline of the America that he is drawing and I’m telling you, it is a frightening portrait to me. Because Trump’s America is an America of division and intolerance.”
Cuomo didn’t let up, releasing several statements scorching Trump, especially for the president’s perceived slight of the late Sen. John McCain in the days after his death.
“I’d like to begin by acknowledging the loss of a great public servant, Sen. John McCain,” the governor said on Monday. “As many of you know, I was in the Clinton Administration for eight years. I was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and had occasion to work with Sen. McCain and he was really a great, great public servant. You can have a different point of view, you can disagree, but his motivation was always right and always pure and he was honorable in the way he did it. In many ways he represented an older era of elected officials who could disagree and could fight and could fight passionately, but could do it with honor and not lose the point that it’s not about establishing a political position, it’s about making progress for people. And that’s what Sen. McCain was about, and I’m going to miss him, for one.”
