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Trevor Noah joked about himself regarding his past admiration for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to Fox News.
Noah mocked Cuomo.
“Guys, of course he was being playful. I mean, imagine you’re much older, politically powerful boss turns to you and says, ‘when was the last time you were really hugged?’ that’s super playful. Can’t you feel your skin crawling with delight?” he joked. “Here’s the thing, even if Cuomo did think that he was just being playful, it’s still not OK. This is what bosses never seem to understand. If you’re a boss, you should never be flirtatious with your employees because, as a boss, you’re basically a dragon, alright? Nobody is ever trying to hug a dragon. They’re just trying to get out of the cave in one piece.”
“And I’ll tell you man, all those people who praised Cuomo so highly last year, those people really don’t look so smart now,” he said before looking off-camera and demanding that someone “delete the tapes!”
“I mean, it must be so embarrassing, can you imagine if you’re one of those people?” he added.
“It genuinely has been very inspiring and refreshing to see a leader like Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, who has come out and engaged his briefings in a non-political way,” Noah said at the time. “He’s engaged them as a leader, he’s engaged them as a human being, he’s also taken the blame for things where he says ‘look I understand that I’m doing certain things that people will hate me for and I’m willing to make these decisions because I think it’s the best thing for human life first. We can always create business afterward. I think he’s informative, I think he’s informed.”
“Everyone should be a Cuomosexual in that way. You should love a leader who engages the people and remembers that they’re serving the people as opposed to the people working for them. Any leader doing that in a crisis, I applaud them.”
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Noah’s comments on the New York governor are a far cry from ones he was making last year when he was among the many celebrities praising Cuomo for his daily press briefings that covered how he was handling the pandemic back when the state was the epicenter of the virus in 2020. During his monologue on Monday, he cleverly winked at the fact that he once considered himself a “Cuomosexual.”
Indeed, Noah previously spoke on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show in April of 2020 where he praised Cuomo as a leader amid the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
