CNN prime-time anchor Chris Cuomo vented about his personal grievances surrounding his job with the network.
Cuomo, who is battling a case of COVID-19, shared his feelings about his job during a candid moment on his SiriusXM radio show Monday.
“I don’t want to spend my time doing things that I don’t think are valuable enough to me personally,” he said, according to the New York Post. “I don’t like what I do professionally … I don’t think it’s worth my time.”
The anchor then pivoted to sharing a story about a stranger harassing him on Easter Sunday because he was outside his home with his family in spite of the virus.
“I don’t want some jackass, loser, fat-tire biker to be able to pull over and get in my face and in my space and talk bullshit to me. I don’t want to hear it,” he explained, noting that he wanted to tell the stranger to “go to hell” but was not able to respond as he wished because of his public persona.
“I want to be able to tell you to go to hell, to shut your mouth … I don’t get that doing what I do for a living,” he continued. “Me being able to tell you to shut your mouth or I will do you the way you guys do each other.”
.@CNN‘s Chris Cuomo went on a rant today about how having the coronavirus has made him reconsider his life. He said he doesn’t like what he does, that it isn’t worth his time and even ranted about a “jackass, loser, fat tire biker”:https://t.co/ctHzceHlO1 pic.twitter.com/btHJRu41nI
— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) April 14, 2020
Cuomo was confronted by a stranger last summer, and the two got into a verbal altercation in which the anchor threatened to throw the man down a flight of stairs. The incident escalated when the man called Cuomo “Fredo,” a reference to The Godfather, which the anchor deemed a slur.
In reflecting on his prime-time show, Cuomo explained that he doesn’t want to spend his time “trafficking in things that I think are ridiculous,” including, “talking to Democrats about things that I don’t really believe they mean” and “talking to Republicans about them parroting things they feel they have to say.”
He also said that President Trump “is full of shit by design.”
