Cuomo, Lemon: Does ‘Luddite’ Trump Want to Bring Back Horse and Buggy? (Sing Duet)

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 13, 2019
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In a series of Tuesday tweets, President Trump weighed in on the latest concerns people were having regarding a couple of high profile deadly crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and questioned the complexity of modern aircraft. Well, that triggered CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon who claimed the President was a “Luddite” and wondered if he wanted to bring back primitive modes of transportation.

Late in Prime Time, Cuomo read through the President’s tweets and immediately brought on “D. Lemon” to help him rip on Trump. “Hold your horses, Fred Flintstone. Hear the car,” Lemon mocked as he tapped his hands on the desk to simulate feet. “Come on. Honestly, it's silly.”

“There's a term for guys like this,” Cuomo then declared. “Luddite. People who fear technology. And fear what it's doing.

After saying there were more terms for Trump too inappropriate for TV (classy) and seeming to suggest Trump was against technology, Lemon lasted out and started asked about what antiquated time period Trump supposedly wanted to send the country back to:

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