“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade and News Nation anchor Chris Cuomo sparred on X this week, and things got so nasty Geraldo Rivera stepped in.
It all started when Cuomo responded to Kilmeade engaging his followers about his former colleague, Pete Hegseth’s Signal text scandal.
He slammed CNN, MSNBC, and ABC’s coverage, telling followers to watch them, “all try to Russiafy this #signal story — won’t work — @realDonaldTrump moving too quick with substantial orders and legislation to be gummed up in it,” he wrote.
He added, “American people see the pattern — won’t tolerate it — Agree? Weigh in.”
Cuomo did just that. He weighed in by calling Kilmeade “a propagandist,” which, naturally, didn’t go over well.
Kilmeade then fired back by calling Cuomo “a discredited ego maniac [sic] who no one watches. Sorry I can’t be more like your idol @donlemon,” he wrote.
Ouch!
Cuomo, who has a reputation for having a hot temper, then seemingly threatened, “You can use your little insults on here… Stand by your words when I see you in person.”
And that’s when Rivera stepped in.
“You are both good guys, but it seems here Brian that you went a bridge too far. No need to hate,” the veteran responded.
One of Cuomo’s female followers found it “amazing, that people think that Chris is threatening violence by saying stand by your words when I see you in person.”
She explained the former CNN anchor, “really means Will you talk… when your [sic] face-to-face with Chris I doubt it.”
Cuomo seemingly echoed that sentiment by responding, “Women are much more emotionally intelligent. Men tend to only see the caveman context :).”
His rep did not comment, but on Friday, he doubled down by retweeting a follower who described Kilmeade as “a keyboard coward like Trump. Say it to his face Brian. I dare you.”
Another commenter wrote, “That would be a good fight. They should do it for charity, which Cuomo declined.
“No, it would not be. And I would never do that,” Cuomo wrote.
Kilmeade did not comment.
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