
Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera slammed the president on Friday for his “shameful” face-off with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The veteran newscaster and longtime Republican was once a close friend of President Donald Trump but turned against him after bearing witness to his “irrational behavior” and “narcissism.”
Rivera called the so-called Ukraine-U.S. peace talks “scripted” and said Trump unfairly “ambushed” Zelensky during the volatile showdown.
“I just could not believe what I was seeing,” he told NewsNation’s Connell McShane. “It was President Trump at his worst, President Trump as an ill-mannered bully insulting a war hero.”
The explosive exchange was also on par with Trump’s melodrama, said Rivera, who suggested that the whole thing was constructed to make Zelensky look bad and Trump look triumphant.
“People will die as a result of this catastrophe because there won’t be aid flowing, I believe, as necessary,” he added. “This will interfere with real life. This wasn’t just theatrics.”