Fox host Jesse Watters – who took over Tucker Carlson’s primetime slot after he was fired earlier this year – was offended that President Joe Biden was spotted walking down a street drinking a milkshake with a straw.
“Some things we just can’t let slide,” Watters said as a clip of Biden showed on screen. “Joe Biden used a straw.”
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“I recommend that all men refrain from using straws,” Watters insisted. “It’s unbecoming, the way a man’s lips purse, the size of the straws is too dainty, the way your fingers clasp on it, no, come on.”
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“Straws are for women and little kids.”
Republicans have long used gender-based attacks on Democrats, often saying that Democratic men aren’t masculine enough and that Democratic women aren’t feminine enough. For example, it has been 15 years since former President Barack Obama was first elected, but prominent conservatives are still saying that he is a queer man and that his wife, Michelle Obama, has a penis.
On X, people mocked Watters’s claim that using a straw makes someone less of a man.