Chris Cuomo made an on-air apology to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday evening (August 6) after stepping into a web based argument with the Democratic Congresswoman over a deepfake video.
Earlier within the day, Cuomo fell for a spoof A.I. video, which noticed the US consultant for New York’s 14th congressional district calling out Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle denims business on the ground of Congress.
“Sydney Sweeney seems to be like an Aryan goddess,” the faux Ocasio-Cortez says within the video. “And the American Eagle marketing campaign is blatant Nazi propaganda.” She additionally makes use of phrases like “sultry little temptress,” “Canadian tuxedo,” and “bouncy little enjoyable luggage.”
Whereas most acknowledged the video as blatantly faux, Cuomo took it critically, retweeting the clip on his X account and writing, “Nothing about Hamas or folks burning jews vehicles…however Sweeney denims advert? Deserved time on flooring of congress? What occurred to this get together? Struggle for small enterprise…not for small tradition wars.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the now-deleted submit, telling Cuomo, “It is a deepfake dude. Please use your important pondering expertise. At this level you’re simply reposting Fb memes and calling it journalism.”
The spat continued, with the NewsNation host acknowledging his mistake whereas persevering with to prod at Ocasio-Cortez. “You’re appropriate… that was a deepfake (but it surely actually does sound such as you). Thanks for correcting,” he stated.
“I’m going to imagine you have been making an attempt to answer to me and burped this tweet into the ether as an alternative. You appear to battle with realizing how one can write an apology. Do you want assist? Perhaps it’s best to name somebody,” Ocasio-Cortez fired again.
Burped? You are able to do higher… you’re a new yorker! I’m sorry I didn’t hearken to the entire clip…clearly fallacious. I do battle…to grasp why you received’t inform hamas to give up…you’ve gotten ducked it repeatedly … do you apologize for that? Much more worthy of reply – and… https://t.co/umhGGTNO7G
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) August 7, 2025
The back-and-forth went on till Cuomo ultimately apologized on-air later that day on his primetime NewsNation broadcast. “You listening? I used to be fallacious,” he acknowledged. “I used to be tweeting right now and noticed a clip of AOC saying that Sydney Sweeney advert was racist. And so I replied to it, and I stated, ‘Why do you care about this and ignore what issues most?”
I used to be fallacious…however what is correct? pic.twitter.com/HUe24ri4Rt
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) August 7, 2025
He continued, “Why in all of the instances that you simply’ve referred to as on Israel to cease why have you ever by no means instructed Hamas to cease? Instructed Hamas to give up? Why would you ignore the St. Louis assault on that Jewish man who had his automobile bombed?’”
“AOC tweeted again and stated, ‘Dude, that’s a deepfake, that Sydney Sweeney advert. You suck,’ in so many phrases. And she or he was proper. They acquired me. AI. It was actually good, and it did seem to be one thing she would say, but it surely wasn’t her,” Cuomo added. “So I thanked AOC for correcting me.”
Social media customers blasted Cuomo for believing the video, with one X person writing, “OH MY GAWD. I’m simply seeing the video for the primary time. It’s unbelievable he may imagine that!! It’s so apparent that is satire.”
“There’s no method he thought that video was actual omg,” stated one other.
“Omfg he thought this was actual?! I’m truly astonished at his stupidity,” one other added.
One other wrote, “Chris is now a gullible troll.”
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