‘Batman — except useless’: Andrew Cuomo’s ‘cringey’ jumper cable stunt backfires

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) announced that he would not drop out of the New York City mayoral race this week. On Tuesday, however, he dropped a new video on Threads with no commentary, showing him jumping a man’s car.

Cuomo is shown with a young man of color whose car appears to have broken down. Cuomo attaches jumper cables to the car, and the driver tries to start it. Cuomo hands him the cables, they exchange a near-finger-snap dap handshake, and the two go about their business.

But one observer noticed he did it wrong, attaching the black cable first and then the red cable. As one how-to video from ChrisFix explains, the red cable goes on first. In Cuomo’s video, he attaches the red clamp second. It was enough for someone on X to submit a safety note in the “community notes” to clarify for safety reasons, how to properly attach the cables…

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