Social Media Sickened By Fox News Host’s Absolutely ‘Gross’ Pete Hegseth Story | EUROtoday

Fox News hosts mirrored on their former colleague-turned-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday by citing a stomach-churning story of when he ate meals off the ground.

The hosts of “Outnumbered,” towards the top of Wednesday’s program, weighed in on a viral TikTok clip the place microbiologist Nicholas Aicher put the “five-second rule” to the take a look at. He discovered that after he let his petri dish hit the bottom, it collected proof of bacterial spots.

After host Joe Concha dropped an unpeeled banana on the bottom for 5 seconds and ate it on the air, his co-host, Rachel Campos-Duffy, remarked that he was “definitely auditioning for the Pete Hegseth seat.”

Host Ainsley Earhardt swiftly jumped in, recalling that Hegseth as soon as dropped a bagel with cream cheese on the ground.

“He would drop it, it would land upside down, the cream cheese on the floor, and he would pick it up,” Earhardt recalled.

“I’m like, ‘Wait, is there any hair on there?’ It was so gross, and he would just pop it in his mouth.”

Concha then referred to Hegseth’s 2019 on-air declare that he hadn’t washed his fingers for a decade.

“Really, I don’t really wash my hands, ever,” he stated on “Fox & Friends” on the time.

“I inoculate myself. It’s just not — germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them therefore they’re not real.”

He’d later take to X, then Twitter, to assert that he was joking.

Earhardt, after Concha’s nod to Hegseth’s hand-washing feedback, stated of her former colleague, “He’s tough, he’s like an Army guy, you know, he’s tough.”

Social media customers couldn’t assist however wince on the nauseating bagel story.