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Former President Donald Trump should be outside swinging a wedge instead of stuck in a bunker of a Manhattan criminal courtroom, according to Fox News' Jesse Watters.
"The guy needs exercise," Watters proclaimed. "He’s usually golfing, and so you’re going to put a man who’s almost 80 sitting in a room like this on his butt for all that time?"
Watters made this comment the first day of Trump's second week in the criminal hush money trial in which he stands accused of falsifying business records to silence alleged sexual affairs in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
"It’s not healthy," Watters said. "He needs sunlight. He needs activity. He needs to be walking around. He needs action."
Watters then condemned Judge Juan Merchan's decision to hold Trump to the New York legal mandate that requires criminal defendants attend their trials.
"It’s really cruel and unusual punishment to make a man do that," said Watters. "And any time he moves they threaten to throw him in prison."
The outrage over the treatment of the 45th president like any other accused defendant attracted widespread lampooning on social media.
"Trump’s too old to sit in a courtroom," @ArtCandeeNow wrote. "Then he’s too old to be POTUS."
X user @dvillella expressed confusing whether it was golf or MAGA rallies that kept Trump's heart rate up. “He’s usually golfing? What happened to 'he’d be doing 2-3 rallies a day [sic]?'"
Some directly took shots at Watters for suggesting Trump deserves special treatment.
"He’s not above the law so deal with it Jesse," reads a post by @MadeInCanada_eh.
As for golf itself, it appears the many out there aren't so sure the exercise on the links all that impressive — especially if the players drive golf carts instead of walk from hole to hole.
"He swings a club and hops in his golf cart," wrote Stacy@In2why. "Not much exercise at all."
