‘How Weak Are You?!’ Fox News Anchor Goes Nuclear on Soldier Complaining About Food Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln

Fox News anchor Joey Jones went on a scorched earth rant against a sailor who complained to CNN about the food he was eating aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with Jones saying the troop was acting like a “weak” crybaby who should be too embarrassed to speak if he ever meets a World War II veteran. He also said the USA is in big trouble if the “little kid” represented a decent slice of the military.

Jones skewered the unnamed troop in a Saturday segment on The Big Weekend Show. The show played a clip of the troop griping to CNN’s Pamela Brown about conditions on the aircraft carrier, which was filmed on July 10 and aired on CNN on Thursday.

“I would say morale’s pretty low, and not just in the division, like in the ship entirely,” the troop told CNN. “We’re running pretty low on rations, I mean at some points in the day it would just be about noodles and tuna mixed in together, and that was it… sometimes you get a corndog, sometimes you get a hot dog.”

Jones could be heard letting out an irritated sigh as the clip wrapped up. He then went off.

“That little… you know what I ate in Afghanistan for six months using a little burner? I ate Ramen noodles… that’s what I ate, and I was happy to have it, because the alternative was an MRE or something cooked by the Afghan guy who was too stupid to be given a gun and they let him be the cook,” Jones started off by saying.

He then turned it up a notch or three.

“How weak are you?! On TV, complaining about tuna and noodles?” Jones continued. “I’m sorry, you volunteered to serve your country. You can come back, get out of the military, and do like all these Democrat veterans and complain about it and make commercials and be a sellout if you want to.”

Jones is a Marine Corps veteran who served eight years in the military and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was severely wounded in 2010 when an IED exploded while he was serving in Afghanistan, with Jones suffering major injuries to his arms and wrists and having both of his legs amputated above the knee.

The topic came up after Fox News highlighted recent reports about troops complaining about the conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Those reports include soldiers venting they have been eating rotten food, as well as reports multiple soldiers have attempted to go overboard amid a long deployment during the Iran war.

Jones sarcastically said he understood the soldier who complained to CNN “might’ve got bored” aboard the ship, but he did not have much sympathy for him.

“To sit there and say that it was terrible because you had a corndog and a hot dog? I would’ve traded a block of C4 to the Taliban for a hot dog by about July 2010,” Jones quipped.

He continued, “I just do not understand the mentality — if this is a representation of who our military is now, and I’m not saying it is, but there’s at least enough for some of these trash rags to print about it, if this is who we are, we’re just Rome sitting here waiting to burn. We’ve got nothing left. It makes me fume.”

He ended his blistering rant by saying he could only imagine what a WWII veteran must be thinking if they had seen the CNN clip.

Watch above.

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