Geraldo Rivera said three words that Donald Trump is going to hate

Former Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera and Donald Trump once were good friends.

But that friendship ended long ago.

And now Geraldo Rivera said three words that Donald Trump is going to hate.

Geraldo Rivera joins media pile-on for Trump debate performance

Veteran journalist Geraldo Rivera appeared on Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation show with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, where both men panned former President Donald Trump’s debate performance.

Rivera mocked Trump as “creepy,” “cringe,” and “childish” for telling a disputed story about Haitian migrants eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.

“I thought that you’re being much too kind, Bill, as you usually are to President Trump. He was childish, he was creepy, he was cringey, that thing about eating dogs — they eat dogs, he was obsessed with it. He wouldn’t let it go. He put that bone in his mouth and he rattled it, and I thought she withstood Hurricane Trump,” Rivera stated.

Rivera is a former Trump friend turned critic.

The 2020 Election caused the end of their friendship.

“Mr. Rivera said he contacted sources who assured him that Dominion was not involved in election interference. He said he called the White House on Nov. 16 to share his findings with Mr. Trump. The president did not take the call, he said, and they have not spoken since. Mr. Trump did not respond to a request for comment,” the New York Times reported. 

Rivera since advocated for Trump’s impeachment following January 6.

But his take was the dominant consensus media about the debate.

The media misses the forest for the trees

Actual voters took a different view of the debate.

And reporters continued to find that Trump’s performance swayed voters more than Vice President Kamala Harris.

A Reuters focus found six in ten voters changing to support Trump.

The New York Times interviewed undecided voters and discovered Kamala didn’t win them over.

The BBC sent a reporter to Saginaw, Michigan, who learned that Trump’s pitch landed with undecided voters.

Jeremy Zehnder runs a truck polishing company.

He told the BBC all the truckers he knows are backing Trump.

“With the truckers, every one of those that we know of are leaning towards the Right,” Zehnder told the BBC in a pre-debate interview.

“What, every one?” the BBC reporter asked in repose.

“I don’t know of one that isn’t,” Zehnder replied. “I mean we do hundreds of trucks every year. And they all want to talk about it, everybody talks about it.”

“I think he’ll do more for us up here,” Zehnder said.

After the debate, Zehnder explained to the BBC that Trump hit the mark on policy.

“But he’s sticking with Trump. It’s about policy, he said. Taxes, the border, and the cost of living,” the BBC reported.

The BBC also spoke with 57-year-old Rachel Oviedo.

Oviedo said Kamala’s refusal to lay out her policy agenda was a stumbling block.

“I like her,” Oviedo said of Kamala before the debate. “But we don’t know what she’s going to do.”

After the debate, Oviedo told the BBC she was leaning towards Trump.

“I think he’ll do more for us up here,” Oviedo explained.

“You know, he did things he shouldn’t have done,” Oviedo continued. “But you gotta forgive people.”

The story of the debate could very well be the disconnect between how the voters processed it and the media analysis.