Former CNN personality Chris Cuomo is clearly no huge fan of President Donald Trump, but he is at least fair enough to acknowledge that many of his colleagues in the mainstream media have been taking a suspiciously casual approach to covering what appears to be the second legitimate assassination attempt against the GOP nominee.

Now an anchor on NewsNation, Cuomo expressed his concern in no uncertain terms.

According to The Hill:

“What if it was your father? Or what if it was Kamala Harris or President Biden? God forbid,” Cuomo said. “Do you think that it would be almost a shoulder shrug and more of talk about the Secret Service and allocation of funds, than just, how crazy it is that this is what’s happening in our country?”

Addressing those who say, “But the guy didn’t even shoot,” Cuomo said, growing increasingly animated, “He had an AK-47 pointed at him.”

“The reaction is unacceptable,” he continued. “And it’s the second time media and political players have gotten away with playing down what should be a cause for panic.”

He is hardly alone when it comes to finding fault with the media’s reaction to Sunday’s golf course scare.

Front page stories America woke up to today after the second attempted Donald Trump assassination:

USA Today: "Hope In America"

Los Angeles Times: "Memorial To WWII sex slaves takes diplomatic flight to Berlin"

The New York Times: "Trump Unharmed…"

WAPO: "Trump Targeted" pic.twitter.com/9nsGVRqgsl

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 16, 2024

Gutfeld Monologue – The second assassination attempt on Trump and how the corrupt media covers it. pic.twitter.com/LGikxQYiGb

— Kelly (@kellytx2) September 17, 2024

Just look at the double standard in the media coverage about both assassination attempts.

Their hatred for Donald Trump blinds them from holding themselves accountable.

They aggressively cover every negative thing that they believe Trump says.

But they won’t do it to…

— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) September 16, 2024

Similar backlash against the media erupted in the aftermath of the first shooting:

Media on Trump being shot: "REPORTS OF LOUD NOISES"

CNN and MSNBC were so scared of giving Trump a martyrdom bump that they could not physically bring themselves to say "possible gunshots."
Just mealy-mouthed reports of "a lot of noise," "loud noises," "maybe fireworks." pic.twitter.com/H96GAUrHDi

— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) July 13, 2024

Front Page Mag published a piece after the second assassination attempt positing that the media’s response would be much different if the target had been Kamala Harris:

NBC News’s Lester Holt was even more shameless when he claimed that “today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants”

I don’t need to talk about how crazy the media would go if the roles were reversed. The J6 riot led to the deployment of National Guard units from across the country and the militarization of D.C., along with an investigation that’s still ongoing. Kamala claimed that it was the worst thing to happen to America since the Civil War even on the anniversary of 9/11. Democrats are still going nuts over the JFK assassination and insist it’s a great national trauma that completely changed history. But guys taking potshots at Trump is something they learn to get past within minutes. It’s just this sorta thing that keeps happening. Why? Who knows. Now let’s talk some more about how he’s a threat to democracy.

Here’s what Cuomo had to say:

And here’s some more criticism of the U.S. media’s reaction to the incident earlier this week: