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11 February 2019

WATCH: Fox & Friends presenter: “I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for ten years“

Pete Hegseth said he doesn’t believe in germs because “I can’t see them, therefore they are not real.”

By Media Mole

Pete Hegseth. Not pictured: germs. (Photo By Getty)

Fox & Friends is President Donald Trump’s favourite TV show. The president is famously a germophobe, though, so he may not have liked a revealingly gross moment on Sunday in which presenter Pete Hegseth announced, unprompted, that he had not washed his hands “in ten years”.

Explaining his grimy decision, Hegseth was pretty on-brand with the show’s cavalier attitude toward science and the scientific method: his justification was that, “Germs are not a real thing.” 

“I can’t see them, therefore they’re not real,” he continued.

Watch the video of the segment here:

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