“Time For This Bullsh*t?”: Chris Cuomo Roasts Trump For Plugging Goya During Pandemic

President Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. have all posted photos or videos promoting Goya beans this week after its CEO’s praise for the president led to calls for a boycott.

CNN host Chris Cuomo was referencing an Instagram photo the president posted on Wednesday of himself in the Oval Office, smiling and giving two thumbs up while surrounded by Goya products. | CNN
CNN host Chris Cuomo was referencing an Instagram photo the president posted on Wednesday of himself in the Oval Office, smiling and giving two thumbs up while surrounded by Goya products. | CNN

As a deadly pandemic continues to ravage the country, President Trump and his adult children-turned-employees are marketing for a brand that’s been subject to calls for a boycott after its CEO praised the president — and CNN’s Chris Cuomo is over this unsettling evidence of priorities.

“You tell me how a President, in the middle of a pandemic, has got time for this bullsh*t?” Cuomo said during his show “Cuomo Prime Time” on Wednesday. “Are you kidding me? Hawking products — Goya? I don't care who it is… Pandemic priorities?”

Cuomo was referencing an Instagram photo the president posted on Wednesday of himself in the Oval Office, smiling and giving two thumbs up while surrounded by Goya products. 

The company has faced backlash since Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods, praised President Trump at a White House event announcing a “Hispanic Prosperity Initiative.”

On Wednesday, the president’s son Donald Trump Jr., an executive at the Trump Organization, also name-dropped the products on Instagram, a day after his sister and senior adviser Ivanka Trump was accused of violating ethics codes for posting a photo of herself on Twitter holding Goya black beans. 

During his monologue, Cuomo also alluded to the many reports that the White House has been deliberately icing out the nation’s leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is a key member of the coronavirus task force. Fauci said last week that he hasn’t briefed President Trump on the virus in at least two months.

This week, Fauci gave an interview with The Atlantic during which he essentially called for Trump’s advisers to “stop this nonsense.” Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro wrote an op-ed in USA Today slamming Fauci for being “wrong about everything” on the virus.

But Fauci’s endless warnings about the risks of reopening too quickly, which many Republican-led states rushed to do in line with the president’s wishes, have largely come to fruition as COVID-19 cases spike nationwide.

“I cannot figure out in my wildest dreams why they would want to do that,” Fauci told the Atlantic of the White House’s attacks on him. “It’s only reflecting negatively on them.”

Cuomo, who has lived with COVID-19, spoke about the longevity of the virus and its ongoing harm to the country as the president pushes to reopen schools and businesses.

“On your dime, in the middle of a pandemic, they're selling beans,” Cuomo said. “This is not left and right. This is reasonable, my brothers and sisters.

He added: “The guy is sitting on the Resolute Desk with a bunch of Goya products, proof positive of why we need many Faucis, but we only have one. Why?”