ALBANY – Echoing the slogan that helped get President Trump in office, Gov. Cuomo touted America’s greatness and urged people to have faith in the country.

“New York needs to lead this motion to believe in America again,” he said. “Believe in our capacity.”

“And I will tell you the god honest truth – I’m a believer,” he added.

The comments came Friday morning, as Cuomo spoke at the winter conference of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York in Hollywood, Florida.

“America didn’t just become the greatest country on the globe,” he said. “We built it that way. It was our initiative. It was our energy. We built the railroads, we built the bridges, we built the airports, we built the interstate highways, and that’s what made America, America. We did it bigger and better than anyone else in the world. And that’s what made America.”

The governor also plugged Trump’s plan to rebuild infrastructure, saying a lot of work has to be done to bring the nation up to speed with other small countries.

“China has fourteen of the world’s twenty longest bridges, all of which were built in the last twenty years,” he said. “U.S. has just three, none of which were built in the last twenty years. We’re nineteen out of twenty for high speed rail, putting us behind Uzbekistan and Poland.”