Colbert Roasts Andrew Cuomo: ‘That is The Dumbest Thing You Could Say as a Politician’

Stephen Colbert blasted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over his “America was never that great” remarks.

At an event in New York City, Cuomo mocked President Donald Trump for his 2016 slogan “Make America Great Again.”

“We’re not going to make America great again… it was never that great,” Cuomo told the crowd.

Before playing the clip, Colbert asked his audience “spot” the “stupid” thing he said, jokingly warning them that it “subtle to pick out.”

And the facial expressions made by Colbert and his Late Show band frontman Jon Batiste say it all.

“That is the dumbest thing you could say as a politician,” Colbert reacted. “That’s like closing your speech with, ‘Apple pie sucks, I’m lukewarm on the troops, and those stripes make the American flag look fat! Thank you, I hate my mother!'”

The Late Show host said that America “may have been through some rough patches,” but praised the “great things” like beating the Axis powers during World War II and “ended Nazism for several decades.”

He also mocked Fox & Friends for remarks made by Ainsley Earhardt while trashing Cuomo Thursday morning. She included beating “Communist Japan” in her list of things that made America great.

“Oh, yes, too many people forget we defeated ‘Communist Japan,'” Colbert reacted, “to preserve the liberties we won when Columbus fought the pilgrims at the Battle of Miami.”

Cuomo, who is currently in a gubernatorial Democratic primary and a potential 2020 candidate, has face a ton of backlash for his remarks.

Watch the clip above, via CBS.