The Chris Cuomo Project - The Rage Bait Era Has Arrived

Episode Date: December 4, 2025

Rage bait isn’t just a trend — it’s the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year, and Chris Cuomo says that tells you everything about where American politics and media are headed. He breaks down how algori...thms, influencers, and outrage merchants on both the right and left have replaced real public sentiment with manufactured fury, turning selective outrage into a political force that now dictates our reality. Social media has become the new “vox populi,” and the loudest voices — not the most honest ones — keep winning. Cuomo explains why influencers who push anger grow faster than anyone else, how rage bait now shapes everything from immigration debates to Venezuela strikes to misinformation around vaccines, and why political violence keeps rising. He also breaks down how Trump’s moves — from ICE deployments to unilateral military actions — are engineered to fuel the cycle, and reflects on his own experience in this ecosystem, including why he refuses to play the rage-for-profit game and why rejecting outrage is the only way voters can regain agency." Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Join Chris Ad-Free On Substack: http://thechriscuomoproject.substack.com Support our sponsors: Live Better Longer with BUBS Naturals. For A limited time get 20% Off your entire order with code CUOMO at http://Bubsnaturals.com Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/CUOMO Promo Code CUOMO Reverse hair loss with @iRestorelaser! Subscribe & Save for 25% off or more + free shipping on the iRestore REVIVE+ Max Growth Kit, and unlock HUGE savings on the iRestore Elite with the code CUOMO at https://www.irestore.com/cuomo ! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code CUOMO at https://www.oneskin.co/cuomo #oneskinpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:40 Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. Listen, the 2025 word of the year for the Oxford English Dictionary, okay? Like the gold standard for our lexicon, for our vernacular, for what matters to us in terms of the spoken word is rage bait. That's two words. It's actually a compound noun, but that's not the point. The point is, are you kidding me? How is something that most of us want to believe is not that big a deal and it's exaggerated? How is that the word of the year?
Starting point is 00:01:10 Because the use of it has become dominant in our culture. That's what the OED people said. That it has become, oh, and get the definition of it. Oh, it's worse. Not only did they make it the word of the year that is because it has tripled in its use in the past year, but how do they define it? It's what you think it is, right? Rage bait, which is things that drive outrage and anger. But why? To increase traffic and following, that's what you have to grab. You have to see this. When I talk about the game,
Starting point is 00:01:52 when I talk about not being a lemming, when I talk about fealty, when I talk about division for dollars. This is the proof that it has become the dominant mechanism in our discourse. Why? Social media has replaced Vox Populi. You know, the big problem in politics was always to figure out where the minds, the hearts and minds of the people are when it comes to politics, right? And we would travel all over the country and you do man on the street interviews only with specific tailoring to what mattered to that community. And it was a lot of work. The easy way, social media, just use what 1,500 or 5,000 of you or 50,000 of you are saying on social media and use that as a proxy for Vox Populi.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Why do I have to try and figure out 200 million people when I can just go off what's on 50,000? It's lazy, but it's easy. And once it becomes common, now it's a standard. And now everybody does it. I can remember back in 2009, okay, when I said something on a TV show, and I remember the day it happened. We just all signed up for Twitter, and I got a call from a PR lady, and she says, oh, did you say this morning that this is a dumb point that mouth, this is for mouth breathers? I said, yeah, I was making a joke about how you'd have to be very simple-minded, a kind of a dope, a mouth breather. You know, someone who breathed like to, right?
Starting point is 00:03:19 It's kind of just a metaphor for being a dope, right? well people are upset about it online that's what she said and i remember thinking to myself really who how well what are they upset about and it turned out that there were literal i'm not kidding there were literally like 150 tweets of people who are pissed off about this because there is a form of behavior dysfunction called mouth breathing whereas It's a condition. It's clinical. And these people were offended by the pejorative of using them as some type of example of stupid.
Starting point is 00:04:04 Now, was that my intention? No, I didn't even know it existed. But I said, all right. So what do you want me to do? You know, some people get offended about everything. Well, it's a lot, you know. And we got a call from the Washington fucking Post. The Washington Post is picking up on 150 people.
Starting point is 00:04:22 That's when it started. And now, right, 15 years later, wherever we are, 16, 17 years later, what do we see? It's all social media. And by the way, I know social media is not reality. I know it's exaggerated for effect. I know it's done for profit. But I also know that it's working. And I also know that it's encroaching on the rest of the country.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Look, you're still going to have disconnects. Look at what we just saw with this special election in Tennessee. based on the polling that was mostly derived from where social media it was supposed to be a neck and neck race she was the aOC of the south the guy won by nine points he got over 50% of the vote he got like 55% of the vote oh but trump won by 22 so what that's trump you win a district with over 50% of the vote and you win by almost 10 points you fucking crushed your competition okay now I know you may not like that and you want to see this as oh we're gaining on them look close is only good
Starting point is 00:05:19 in horseshoes and hand grenades, okay? If you're losing, you're losing. You lose by nine or ten. You lost, okay? You lost definitively. Why? Because social media is not reality. It's getting closer.
Starting point is 00:05:33 Why? Because reality is becoming conditioned to social media. That's why the influencers who are growing the fastest are in the rage bait business. That's almost all I do on social media now. In terms of what I comment on, I just point out, This is rage bait. This is rage bait. And you see it everywhere. Once you get that lens affixed to your third eye, you'll see it everywhere. How? All right. Let's go through what's making money now. rage bait Biden made us a drug den by allowing in all these immigrants and I'm going to make us drug free now is that a real promise no it's not even a reasonable aspiration okay because why because as long as there's demand they're going to be supply for drugs in this country illicit illegal dangerous deadly drugs and you can't control the demand so what do you do you go after the supply I mean you can control the demand but it's hard so you go after the supply and you demonize Biden say it's his fault and promise to do something that's rage bait That's rage bait.
Starting point is 00:06:31 It's an irrational, negative assertion to generate outrage instead of insight. That's rage bait. But what about Venezuela and what Trump did in Venezuela? That's a war crime. Since when do you want to go to the mat defending drug dealers? I don't remember you guys doing this when we were killing everybody in a burqa in Afghanistan and Iraq. We didn't have social media back then, though, not the way we do now. but you're all so upset about this second bomb on a drugboat.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Okay, so how's that rage bait? Well, because they're making it seem like it's such a big and important deal to them when these were not people who were that upset about who Obama was killing with his drones. Some of them were, but not because he was killing the wrong people or even doing it the wrong way in terms of the methodology, but the process, Chris Murphy, Senator Connecticut, Tim Cain, Senator Virginia, Democrats, Rand Paul, Senator Republican, Kentucky. They've always been pissed off by unilateral action
Starting point is 00:07:32 by presidents with the military. Why? Because the War Powers Act, Article 1 for them, Article 2, for the executive, these are pretty limited in terms of what a president can do unilaterally unless you're being attacked. There's an imminent threat, like missiles or some shit like that. And that has been grossly abused by presidents,
Starting point is 00:07:53 and left. Why? Congress has let it happen. Why? Because they're weak. That's why. So there are some who have been real ones on this issue, but most of them, they're just playing a rage bait. So now the left wants you to believe that they care about due process in these things when it's about whether you're not, you've killed drug dealers with one or two missiles. Now look, do I believe that there's a real issue here to unpack? Yeah, it's just not that part of it. It's why is he using the military around Venezuela. Why is he doing it in the name of helping with drugs? Forget about the hypocrisy on the pledge because he just let go a huge narco-terrorist. He just pardoned him. Why? I don't know. But certainly if he was a real woman when it comes to fighting drugs in America,
Starting point is 00:08:35 he wouldn't have pardoned a guy who was convicted for bringing drugs to America, right? And why Venezuela? They're not one of the main hubs of drug action in this country, certainly not fentanyl. So why is he doing it? I don't know, but he should have to explain it to Congress. shouldn't be able to have 10% of our military surrounding a place that he hasn't asked permission to do it, right? That's the issue, but that's not as rageful. It doesn't work as well. And that's what you have to see. And that's what this confirmation is from the OED. Bubbs Naturals. Support for the Chris Cuomo Project comes from Bubbs Naturals. I dig it because I like saying the name. But more importantly, I like how it ups your game. Aging sucks. I believe you
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Starting point is 00:11:42 Look at who resonates on social media. Look at the platforms that are growing the fastest. They all do the same fucking thing. Pete Hegseth should go. And I don't think Pete Hegseth should go tomorrow. I think he should go tonight. So I really do kind of not only want to see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water,
Starting point is 00:12:02 but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little. Like I'm really having a difficult time ginning up sympathy for these guys who 10 seconds earlier almost got taken out by the initial bomb, but because they managed to get ejected, you know, a little too soon, had to be taken out in the water. I think Pete Hegseff, it's impossible to imagine that he survives this as Secretary of Defense. I think he must resign, and I think Republicans
Starting point is 00:12:33 will ask for that, ultimately once they investigate this. But this is a disaster for this generation of people serving in the United States military. And that is a tragedy more than a farce. Right and left. They are not about being reasonable. They are not about accommodation. They are not about compromise. They are not about nuance. They're not about that. They're about rage bait. Megan Kelly. Kill all the drug dealers. Don Lemon. Trump's a Nazi. Hegset has to go tonight. Rachel Maddow has to go tonight. We need that scalp. Why? Because that's a win. And they want to piss you off. Why? Because it works. It works. I am not begrudging them playing the game as it is designed. I just reject that game. And let me tell you, who's not growing as fast? Me.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Why? Because I don't do rage bait. I call out rage bait, but I don't do it. Why? I don't know. On some level, maybe I'm against my own success. No, that's not it. I work too hard to not want to be successful. It's about how I'm successful. And of course, look, there's a damned if you do damned if you don't. I mean, most of you will blame me and say, oh, you just like them. You just like that at CNN. I reject it. I have never done things. I have never done. things just because I thought that they would be good for my bottom line and they were divisive to get there. Never. And you may say otherwise and I disagree and I would know not you. Oh yeah, well, you were for the vaccine. Why the fuck wouldn't I be for the vaccine? All the data that we were given, all the things that government were saying, not me. I knew. You didn't know shit. Okay. There were a handful of people later on, the same people who were celebrating Trump bringing us Operation Warp Speed, then with time and different variants and strain on our economy and our lives
Starting point is 00:14:26 and our kids because of school, or lack thereof, then they started to be pissed about it. Okay? That is not the same as, because remember, this is a huge material fact that goes to the rage bait point. Those people who come after me, the yeah butters about me, yeah, but you know, you were with the COVID. When was I fired and taken off TV, 2021? That year that I wasn't on TV is when all of this backlash happened. This is when we learned that the vaccine was not giving you the kind of protection that we thought it was with variance.
Starting point is 00:15:02 That's when we learned all the boosters and all that shit. I wasn't even on TV. I wasn't even on social media. So why am I blamed for that part? Rage bait. Convenience. I get it. I signed up for it.
Starting point is 00:15:14 But I want you to see it. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm not saying I don't make mistakes. Of course I do. I just happen to correct them whenever I get a chance. No, you've never apologized for pushing the vaccine. I will never apologize for pushing the vaccine until some magical day comes that no scientist,
Starting point is 00:15:29 no matter how they feel about it, not even McCullough, none of these guys have ever said to me, man, that vaccine was poison. That vaccine was poison. It causes cancer more than it does anything else. And it didn't save anybody. It killed all that shit that Bobby was saying before he wanted to be taken seriously.
Starting point is 00:15:45 He doesn't say it now, right? Why? Because there's accountability. That was about rage bait. Just like Megan Kelly, on one side, just like the lefties, with the I've had it podcast, which is like the lefty version, a mirror image of Megan Kelly, right? I just want to make sure everybody knows that I believe Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. He reminds me of a Nazi. He sounds like a Nazi. His wife is the exact same thing. Super fucking angry, attractive, blonde women that want to be outraged about everything and this new faux muscularity that we have on social media, which is where I talk the talk of violence. That's what I do. Fuck you. You suck. C-word.
Starting point is 00:16:31 You know, you're a Nazi. You're a commie. You're a piece of shit. You should go to hell. All this stuff that used to be ended with a punch in the face. now that doesn't exist in our society now that's not true that's not true it exists just not on the social media banter there the rule is the biggest mouth wins the most angry the most violent the most you know with their words but what else are we seeing human beings are pretty simple animals
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Starting point is 00:19:02 none of the same people are outraged about some guy who it seems was radicalized here maybe by jihadis somewhere else who killed the National Guard member and put another one in critical condition the guy's still in the hospital why aren't you outraged about that i'll tell you why because it's not as useful as rage bait against the other side and the left is the one prosecuting the case against the administration right that's the way It is. It's a binary system. They don't want to go after Islamists, and I don't know why completely. They say what you're supposed to say. I disapprove.
Starting point is 00:19:46 There's no place for this in our politics. Violence is always wrong. No matter who does it, which is a little nod that they're worse than we are. But if you flip it and it's some neo-Nazi or some maga guy who does something to a lefty, murderer evil right all those words come out all the invective all the rage but not here why i think that they're worried about upsetting people who are open to fundamentalist ideas within islamism not just Muslims and i have to tell you you guys have to get up to speed on this demonizing muslims is as wrong as any group i know there's a growing amount of people i even get lumped in with this
Starting point is 00:20:30 which is fucking crazy. But Muslims aren't like Christians. Muslims aren't like Jews. I reject that. I reject it. Okay? One pretend faith is no different than any other pretend of faith.
Starting point is 00:20:41 And let's be honest. I choose to have faith. I choose to believe in something I cannot prove and may absolutely be untrue. I don't know. I choose to believe it is because it works for me
Starting point is 00:20:53 as an influence on my own life to the extent that anything works. But it's a choice. It's not a certainty. I'm not arguing it to you. I don't proselytize. I don't put my faith on you. I don't ask you to be faithful. I don't believe in any of that. But I'm not going to condemn an entire group of a billion and a half people because of the actions of some. Why? Because it's just not fair. They've got some crazy-ass Christians also. Are there more crazy-ass Muslims? Or people who call themselves Muslims? And I would argue, you bomb an abortion clinic. You're not a Christian. You're not acting as a function of your Christianity. You're a fucking hypocrite. As far as I'm concerned, you're godless. Same thing with the Islamists. Yeah, they're Muslims.
Starting point is 00:21:34 They look like it. They live there. They practice it. But they don't really, because they've become complete anathema to the virtues of that faith. They're Islamists. They're extreme Islamists.
Starting point is 00:21:45 Okay, they're ideologues that are toxic and often terroristic. That's what this guy was radicalized into. He didn't start that way. He was working with our government. Going after Islamists, the Taliban. Then he came here, he got radicalized. Who? Why? I don't know. We're not even asking. Why? Doesn't work as rage bait. See the game.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Is it frustrating to me? Yeah. Why? Because I could triple my following and my reach. I have a lot more fans if I would just go all in for a side. The natural side for me, given the fact that my family is democratic and that the persuasion of Donald Trump, what his policies are about, is easier for me to oppose ideologically, also practically. On most counts, not all. but I could and there's more of a need on that side it's kind of crowded on the right right he's got his people you've got your podcast your pod bros and you've extended it as much as you can right because you know you get once you get out there you get so far right you start bumping into the left right Tucker Carlson Fuentes meeting talking it's different I talked to Tucker Carlson to show that
Starting point is 00:22:52 you can completely disagree with somebody and still want to sit down and understand where they're coming from I would never sit down with a guy who is a straight up white supremacist, unless I wanted to prove that he doesn't really believe those things. He's just doing it as rage bait and for effect to divide for dollars. That's the only reason. Otherwise, I don't want to give them a fair hearing. I don't want to give hate a fair hearing. There's no need. So we all make choices. And, you know, if you're explaining you're losing in politics, but they're not all the same. Rage bait is real. And once you look for it, you'll see it is everywhere. Even in health care. Right? That's what the shutdown.
Starting point is 00:23:29 was supposed to be about. But really, it was just about rage bait. Because what are they doing now? Health care's going nowhere. They won't work with us. This sucks. There's no progress. We only got 25 or whatever days left.
Starting point is 00:23:39 We're going to shut down again. But it's never really been about who's got the best ideas in making something happen. It's just about which side you can blame and who you can piss people off at. You shouldn't allow rage bait to condition your conscience. You should reject it. The same way you do everywhere else in your life. right someone comes up to you i mean if you're not in grade school high school and says hey this guy said this and that about you at work and you should go beat his ass you're not going right over to find
Starting point is 00:24:09 the guy and throttle them right you're going to make inquiries you're going to try and get fair brokers you're going to try to understand you're going to try to hear them out and see what it is and what it isn't that's all lost on social media you've got people who are all in for one side where whatever their side does is okay and whatever the other side does is evil and they're posing to you as moral agents. Oh, this isn't about right and left. It's about good and evil. This guy's a Nazi. They're commies. And now you'll see. They're fundamentalists. They're extremists. They're Muslim terrorists. That's where, why do you think Trump sent in the next wave of ICE enforcement to Minnesota? You know what there are a lot of in Minnesota? Muslims.
Starting point is 00:24:58 Why? The same reason he's going after Venezuela. He wants a socialist, who happens to have a lot of oil, to be a bad guy, a bad thing. You should be against him. He's our enemy. Socialism. Why? Because he's afraid that this populist movement on the left can beat him in the midterms and erase the rest of his legacy. That's why he's in Venezuela, oil, a distraction, and the face of socialism. Okay? Now, that's done. increasingly on both sides. Why? It works. That's why the OED made rage bait the word of a year. And this is a really damning appraisal of where we are, but also where we're headed. Support for the Chris Cuomo project comes from I Restore. My hair's looking pretty good, isn't it? Come on. Look at this. Look at it. Look at what I can do. You can see that? You can't hear it. That's why you got to go video and not just audio. I restore is helping me. I use the shampoo. I use the conditioner.
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Starting point is 00:29:50 Cuomo sent me. And the reason I tell you is not as a scold and not for you to feel bad about being on social media, but to make you aware of, look, it's just like staying out of the junk food aisles in the supermarket. Okay? You can go there. You can eat it, but you've got to know that you're poisoning yourself. And if what you're trying to do is lose weight or get in better shape, then you shouldn't be there. And anybody who cares about you should tell you that because you should be a critical
Starting point is 00:30:25 thinker. A critical thinker rejects rage bait who wants more than just somebody shouting at you like it was at a football game. But look at the platforms that are growing. Look at the influencers who are getting more and more influence in what they're doing. Look how few, even on the left. Okay? And again, I believe it's a tougher fit for them on the left. You can criticize me about that and say, no, they're the meaner ones. They're more violent. You know, I'll argue with you about that, but it doesn't make me hate you. Okay. And you can feel whatever way you want. Look at the top podcast. Look at everything. Everybody is selling rage. That's what it is because that's what works. And the use of it tripled in the last year and the way they define it is exactly for what it is. Done to increase
Starting point is 00:31:16 traffic and expand followings. Literally the definition of the word from the kings of the dictionary, the masters of our language, the Oxford English Dictionary, define it as something that is used
Starting point is 00:31:32 to provoke you for profit. Doesn't that disgust you? Doesn't that make you want to reject it? It should, if you're a critical thinker, and that's why I'm selling gear to you wear your independence and reinforce that it's good to be different okay when the norm sucks
Starting point is 00:31:53 it's good to be different don't be a lemming be a free agent this is why i sell the gear to reinforce that you got to be about you and using what makes sense to you not just what makes you feel a certain way in the moment rage bait is real it is resonating and it is everywhere and it is only being done because it's easier and it sells. See it for what it is, okay? And treat it for what it is. It is the problem, not the solution. Tell me if I'm wrong.
Starting point is 00:32:32 You can tell me here. I'll be having special sessions about this on Substack. Please subscribe. I'll see you on TikTok, Instagram. I'll see on News Nation every weekday night, 8p and 11P. My friends, the problem. problems are real. The outrage is real. Our approach must stay the same. Let's get after it.

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