Posted on 08/13/2019 11:00:10 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'Text "FREDO" to 88022': Trump's re-election campaign pounces on Chris Cuomo video scandal with 'Fredo Unhinged' t-shirts that urge supporters to sign up for text alerts
Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign wasted no time capitalizing on a feud between the president and Chris Cuomo, introducing a t-shirt for sale on Tuesday that mocks the CNN anchor for a videotaped F-bomb rant that went viral online.
Cuomo confronted a man who called him 'Fredo' – insisting he thought that was the TV star's name. Cuomo took it as an anti-Italian insult and threatened to throw the man down a flight of stairs as he berated him in vulgar language while a clelphone camera captured the scene.
Fredo Corleone was the dimwitted and disloyal older brother of Michael, the central character in 'The Godfather.'
The Trump campaign's response is a t-shirt, available for $34.00, that carries the words 'FREDO UNHINGED' and still images from the video.
'CNN’s Chris Cuomo is Fredo!' the campaign website's product page reads.
'The truth hurts. He totally lost it. Help us annoy Chris Cuomo and buy your "Fredo Unhinged Tee" now!'
Campaign Manager Brad Parscale said in a tweet that only 'a limited supply' would be available. Less than 2-1/2 hours later he wrote that the shirts were '[s]elling faster than Fredo's meltdown! Thank you #FredoCuomo for filling up our coffers. You have now directly supported the POTUS!'
Communications Director Tim Murtaugh snarked on Twitter that the shirt 'should come with a trigger warning for @CNN anchors.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
if they CAN be embarrassed. God, what kind of maniac!
He defended Cuomo.....he and his bff Jerry Rivers agreed that Cuomo was a victim. And, that it’s perfectly ok to get hysterical and drop the F bomb over and over in front of the kids. They’ve heard it before, no big deal.
Just slipped another notch in my view then.
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