President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE referred to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo Chris CuomoCNN's Don Lemon: 'Blow up the entire system' remark taken out of context CNN's Lemon: 'We're going to have to blow up the entire system' if Democrats win back White House, Senate Giuliani criticizes NYC leadership: 'They're killing this city' MORE as "Fredo" several times while speaking to reporters at the United Nations and defending his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani Rudy GiulianiThe Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set to ask SCOTUS to limit mail-in voting CIA found Putin 'probably directing' campaign against Biden: report Democrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate MORE on Monday afternoon.

Trump's remarks followed a heated interview between Cuomo held with Giuliani and also come a few weeks after a man accosted the CNN anchor, referring to him as the "Fredo" character from "The Godfather."

“I think he [Giuliani] was excellent. I watched him the other night and I haven’t watched that show in a long time. I don’t watch CNN because it’s fake news,” Trump said during first day of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.

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President Trump on Giuliani's interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo: “I watched Rudy take apart Fredo ... He took Fredo to the cleaners.” pic.twitter.com/p8jbm4BKGC — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 23, 2019

“But I watched Rudy take apart Fredo. Fredo’s performance was incompetent, Rudy took him apart," the president continued. "The press doesn’t give him credit because they take little tiny snippets where — wherever Rudy was a little bit, if he mispronounces a word, they’ll show that, but they won’t show the whole."

“Rudy Giuliani took Fredo to the cleaners. First time I’ve watched CNN in a long time because I hate to watch it because it’s so fake.”

Giuliani appeared on Cuomo's program on Sept. 19 to downplay reports that he and Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation into Hunter Biden’s dealings with a gas company in Ukraine. Trump's reference comes six weeks after Cuomo got into a verbal altercation at a Hamptons bar after a patron referred to him as "Fredo." The incident was captured on video and quickly went viral.

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"Punk ass bitches from the right call me Fredo," Cuomo says to a man standing beside him on Aug. 12. "My name is Chris Cuomo. I’m an anchor on CNN. Fredo is from 'The Godfather.' He was a weak brother and they use it as an Italian aspersion."

The unidentified man replies by insisting he believed Cuomo's first name was Fredo.

"You’re going to have a big f---ing problem," Cuomo says at one point, before telling the man that he'll "f---ing throw you down these stairs like a f---ing punk."

While Cuomo apologized for the incident, those coming to his defense included cable news rivals such as Sean Hannity Sean Patrick HannityFormer Florida attorney general calls Kyle Rittenhouse 'a little boy out there trying to protect his community' Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election Cruz: Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice next week MORE, the Fox News host. Hannity said Cuomo had "zero to apologize for."