‘Trump Hurt Trump Yesterday’: Fox & Friends Hosts Clash Over President’s Immigration Claims
Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera and Brian Kilmeade chastised President Donald Trump for going off-script at yesterday’s roundtable discussion intended to tout his tax reform law — earning them the scorn of host Ainsley Earhardt.
Rivera started things off by saying Trump shouldn’t have thrown away his pre-planned tax and economic remarks in order to re-litigate his old talking points about Mexican rapists.
“I wish he had stuck with his remarks about the tax cut and the economy,” Rivera said.
Rivera remarked on “the unfortunate caravan story,” and noted illegal immigration numbers are mostly down right now, and these types of comments won’t help Trump like his accomplishments will when its time for reelection.
Ainsley Earhardt responded by praising Trump for throwing away his scripted notes, though co-host Brian Kilmeade pushed back and said he agreed that Trump hurt himself by not staying on topic.
“We would’ve left that meeting thinking how West Virginia was revitalized thanks to the economy,” Kilmeade said. “Instead we talk about voter fraud, we’ve talked about that caravan where he says all those rapes are happening. I know Trump’s being Trump and I get that, but Trump hurt Trump yesterday.”
Rivera continued to say that Trump didn’t make the most out of the positive messaging available to him, and he also said Trump’s claims about massive voter fraud was a “manufactured crisis” that couldn’t even be proven by the commission he assembled to investigate it.
“They didn’t find any meaningful voting fraud,” Rivera said. “And then you had the caravan which conjured up a ‘brown tide’ washing over the southern border, and all these people abusing our immigration laws.”
Earhardt countered by praising Trump while bashing Nancy Pelosi, though Kilmeade cut her off again by noting that “the president swamped that message with his other remarks.”
“Well you might not have liked the fact that he talked about other things,” Earhardt shot back.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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