Geraldo Rivera goes off the deep end as Donald Trump unravels

Bill Palmer | 11:30 pm EDT April 25, 2020

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Donald Trump’s meltdown about ingesting disinfectants has created such a tidal wave of backlash against him, he had to reluctantly announce today that he’s backing down from holding press briefings. With Trump’s poll numbers continuing to drop and everything going wrong for him, his chief apologist Geraldo Rivera is going off the deep end.

Geraldo has decided that he’s going to be the idiot who tries to make the straight faced argument that Donald Trump really was being sarcastic:

Hard not to believe @realDonaldTrump was being sarcastic about bleach drinking. He just does deadpan better than most reporters.
And if anyone really would heed that bleach-drinking advice, odds are they have other issues.

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) April 25, 2020

What’s remarkable here is that even if you do swallow the notion that Trump was merely joking (which he wasn’t), Geraldo is literally arguing that anyone who’s dumb enough to listen to Trump gets what they deserve. Not a good look.

Bill Palmer

Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report