GOD BOTHER

Chris Cuomo fury at ‘Fredo’ insult

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo didn’t take kindly to being compared to “The Godfather’s” most bumbling son by a heckler, going on a profanity-filled rant and saying that “Fredo” was equivalent to “the N-word” for Italian-Americans.

Look how they massacred Mario’s boy.

CNN host Chris Cuomo all but threatened to leave an agitator sleeping with the fishes for taunting him as “Fredo” — a nod to the hapless “Godfather” son — in an F-bomb-laden rant that was definitely not suitable for “Prime Time.”

The nearly two-minute clip, apparently filmed Sunday on Shelter Island and credited to conservative blog “That’s the Point with Brandon,” shows Cuomo absolutely losing his mind over the reference.

“Punk-ass bitches from the right call me ‘Fredo,’ ” fumed Cuomo, the kid brother of Gov. Cuomo and son of the late three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo. “He was a weak brother and they use it as an Italian aspersion . . . It’s like the N-word to us.”

While the man insisted he truly believed Fredo was the nationally seen “Cuomo Prime Time” host’s name, the 49-year-old CNN star clearly took it as a reference to the weak and feeble-minded middle son of Don Vito Corleone, as portrayed by John Cazale in the mob franchise’s classic first two films.

But Cuomo’s reaction was more befitting hotheaded eldest kid Sonny Corleone — and the profanities flew faster than the bullets that ended the James Caan character’s life at the causeway tollbooth.

“It’s like if I call you punk bitch. You like that? You want that to be your nickname?” railed Cuomo, who launched at least 24 F-bombs. “You called me Fredo. You know my name’s not f--king Fredo. You did not think my name was f--king Fredo. Don’t be a liar. You want to be a liar? Then stand up like a man.”

The Queens native then threatened to give the man an old-school back-alley beating, as shocked onlookers gathered around.

“I’ll f--king ruin your s--t, I’ll f--king throw you down these stairs like a f--king punk,” seethed Cuomo. “You want to call me Fredo, take a f--king swing . . . I’ll f--king wreck your s--t.”

In an ending more suited for “The Sopranos,” the clip cuts out before there’s any resolution, but by Tuesday morning Cuomo was focusing all his powers and all his skills on damage control.

“Appreciate all the support - but truth is I should be better than the guys baiting me,” he wrote on Twitter. “This happens all the time these days. Often in front of my family.

“But there is a lesson: no need to add to the ugliness; I should be better than what I oppose.”

CNN insisted that it was willing to go to the mattresses for its 9 p.m.weeknight host, with a spokesman saying: “Chris Cuomo defended himself when he was verbally attacked with the use of an ethnic slur in an orchestrated setup. We completely support him.”

But for all his rage, Cuomo evidently forgot that he once likened himself to Fredo Corleone in a radio interview.

“There is a group of people — politicos — who always hint they might run, but not necessarily plunge all the way, and they are members of La Cuomo Nostra,” said host Curtis Sliwa in 2010, discussing with Cuomo then-rumors that brother Andrew might run for governor.

“Who am I, then?” quipped Cuomo. “Fredo?”

“Yes, exactly,” replied Sliwa. “So you better be careful that your brother Andrew doesn’t kiss you on both cheeks and then, all of a sudden, they take you out on the middle of the lake and [then] where’s Chris?”

The joking hypothetical mashed up two of Fredo’s most infamous on-screen moments.

“I know it was you, Fredo,”

Michael Corleone, as played by Al Pacino, tells his older brother, planting a kiss on his forehead as he acknowledges Fredo’s betrayal. “You broke my heart!”

Fredo ultimately meets his end after their mother dies when Michael has hit man Al Neri take Fredo out onto Lake Tahoe for a fishing trip, then shoots him dead as Fredo says a Hail Mary and Michael watches from his shorefront compound.

Cuomo and his antagonist weren’t the only ones who felt the comparison was apt.

“I thought Chris was Fredo also. The truth hurts,” wrote President Trump in retweeting the viral video. “Totally lost it!”

Trump also mused in another tweet whether Cuomo’s meltdown would disqualify him for gun ownership.

“Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant?” wrote Trump. “Filthy language and a total loss on control. He shouldn’t be allowed to have any weapon. He’s nuts!”

In a betrayal not unlike the notoriously dimwitted Fredo, even Andrew Cuomo last year joked about his brother’s intellect.

“He was found at our front door in a basket and he was 16 years old,” cracked the governor of Chris in May 2018. “So he has certain development issues.”

One person who surely would not have approved was Mario Cuomo, a devoted and vocal opponent of Italian-American stereotypes who famously didn’t see “The Godfather” until 2013, more than 40 years after its release