Fox News host says Trump had 'athlete's reaction' to alleged golf course gunman

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade claimed former President Donald Trump had an "athlete's reaction" when the Secret Service opened fire on an alleged gunman in Florida on Sunday.

On the Monday edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy argued that Trump enjoyed "the level of security he had when he was president at" the Trump International Golf Course.

"It's impossible to have a cop everywhere outside," Doocy said. "And I didn't realize until yesterday that there's not a solid wall, like cinder block, but instead, it's a chain link fence."

But Kilmeade pointed to a guest who said there would have been security positioned outside the golf course if Trump had been the current president.

"The one thing about the president you notice, he does best under pressure," Kilmeade asserted. "I mean, you saw with the first shooting, second shooting, when things go crazy around him, that's when he's calmest."

"When he's under, when there's stress and there's chaos around him, he has the opposite reaction," he added. "It's like an athlete's reaction."

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Trump shared details of the attempted shooting with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

"They were on the fifth hole, they were about to go up to putt," Hannity said on Sunday. "Within seconds, the Secret Service pounced on the president, covered him."

"The first thing the president did when he got back to the clubhouse was make sure that everybody else was okay," he said. "Then, when the president found out everybody was safe and nobody had been harmed, I guess in typical fight, fight, fight fashion, Trump said to [Steve Witkoff], and then he related to me, oh, I really wanted to finish the hole."

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