Geraldo Rivera has backed Donald Trump’s choice of his former Fox News colleague Major Pete Hegseth as defense secretary. Rivera famously backed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, branding Trump a “sore loser.

Hegseth, who has been a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend” for the better part of a decade, has used the show to highlight his views about the US military. He has railed against the Pentagon’s adoption of “social justice” messages and argued that “woke” policies have hurt military recruitment.

President-elect Donald Trump has stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary