Newsmax anchor Eric Bolling was mocked online for a bizarre tantrum over a video of President Joe Biden taking a bite of his salad at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Biden was shown on camera eating his salad while conversing with others during the annual event, which raises money for scholarships and honors the professional recipients of awards handed out by the White House Correspondents' Association (WCHA).
Bolling was for some odd reason infuriated by the video and launched into the following rant:
“Here’s the president of the United States, the man with the nuclear codes at his fingertips, grappling with a bowl of lettuce. He can barely feed himself. Just watch this for a second."
"This isn’t slowed down, this isn’t edited, this is Joe trying to eat a bite of salad. Just watch. Watch. This man has the nuclear codes."
"Look. That’s the president. That’s the president of the United States! The man who’s gonna push back on Russia, China, North Korea."
"Are you kidding me?! He can’t even take a bite of his own salad. This man’s not suited for the job for four more minutes, let alone four more years.”
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Bolling was mocked almost immediately.
Oddly, Bolling isn't the only prominent right-winger to complain lately about the way Biden eats his food.
In February, Fox News host Jesse Watters was widely criticized after he questioned Biden's masculinity over—wait for it—ice cream.
Biden stopped to grab ice cream following an 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. Watters claimed Biden "should save [eating ice cream] for vacation" and claimed it's unseemly to witness the nation's leader "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, continued with a suggestion that only people who are "put out to pasture" eat ice cream, suggesting eating it is a sign of mental frailty.
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