Fox News host Jesse Watters was widely criticized after he questioned President Joe Biden's masculinity over—wait for it—ice cream.
The President stopped to grab ice cream following his appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, prompting Watters on his program to criticize Biden's public enjoyment of ice cream, suggesting that it is not a "manly" activity.
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Watters said:
"You know my rule about men eating soup in public? I don’t think it’s manly ... not a good look."
"I think the same thing for ice cream. You should save that for vacation. A grown man, especially the president, should not be licking ice cream in public.”
His remarks, reminiscent of Fox's uproar over former President Barack Obama's decision to don a tan suit while on the job, opened Watters up to immediate criticism and mockery.
Watters went on to imply that indulging in ice cream could be a sign of mental frailty and openly speculated about what actions he would take if he were in Biden's position:
“If I were Biden and I was losing to [former President Donald Trump] my party wanted to put me out to pasture and swap me out for a younger, better-looking liberal, the Mideast and Europe are at war, and migrants are murdering our women, the last thing I would do? Go out for ice cream with a comedian and lick it when they ask about the border."
Republicans have repeatedly asserted that Biden is cognitively impaired—though there isn't evidence to suggest this as much as the GOP has tried to make hay out of Biden's occasional verbal stumbles.
In response, Biden and his campaign have turned the tables on Trump, highlighting Trump's own regular bouts of confusion.
As with this video supercut after Trump seemed to get confused about his own wife's name.
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