Fox News personality Jesse Watters was dragged after questioning Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's "masculinity" due to how he drinks a shake, implying that the fact that Walz drinks his vanilla shakes with a straw is evidence that he's not "masculine" enough to potentially hold one of the nation's highest offices.
Watters suggested that Walz—who is happily married and is the father of two children—is so unmasculine that he's not appealing to women at all.
Watters appeared to be referencing Walz’s beverage choice during a recent visit to the Minnesota State Fair, though it seemed the shake in question had a spoon rather than a straw. Last week, Walz shared a shake with North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, again, primarily using a spoon.
But that didn't stop Wtters from saying:
“Women love masculinity and women do not love Tim Walz so that should just tell you about how masculine Tim Walz is. The other day you saw him with a vanilla ice cream shake. Had a straw in it. Again, that tells you everything.”
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Oddly, Watters once shared a photo to his official Instagram of himself eating a McDonald's meal that included a drink with a straw in it.
Additionally, former President Donald Trump—whose masculinity Watters and his former Fox colleague Tucker Carlson have actively defended—was once photographed drinking a vanilla shake with a straw.
All of this was rich coming from Watters—and people pointed out just how ridiculous it all was.
This isn't the first time Watters has bizarrely complained about the way prominent Democrats eat their food and questioned their masculinity in the process.
In February, 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.”
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