Fox & Friends Melts Down Over Piece Criticizing Trump Fitness Challenge — But Admit Hegseth and RFK Jr ‘Cheated a Little’

The curvy couch got a little bent out of shape over a New York Times piece criticizing the so-called “Pete & Bobby Challenge.”

Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, along with HHS honcho and denim defender Robert Kennedy Jr., introduced their “Pete & Bobby Challenge” — consisting of 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups — with a workout video.

If it seems like a daunting task, that’s because it is, according to Times reporter Calum Marsh, who spoke with multiple fitness experts to find out just how practical the challenge is for the everyday American.

And the experts agreed, saying the “Pete & Bobby Challenge” is not something to just jump into.

In addition, Jess Hviid Skov, a gym owner and former sergeant in the Danish army, criticized Hegseth and Kennedy for their form on the pull-ups, which he says falls short of military standards.

The Times piece roiled Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt, and Charlie Hurt.

Kilmeade said Marsh’s article was like, “If you’re a baseball player, don’t watch the Dodgers. They’re too good.”

“Yeah, you don’t want people to strive,” Kilmeade said in a rebuke of the Times piece. “If you are not good at something, don’t try it and don’t set goals. If you can’t achieve, it if you are not at the top of your game, don’t even get in the game. That’s the new American slogan: ‘We don’t try.'”

“Just don’t do it,” Hurt added.

Hurt also admitted that Hegseth and Kennedy may have cheated at their own challenge when he added: “Also, making fun of their — those are the last chin-ups. They cheated a little bit at the end, but they started out strong.”

Read the full exchange here:

CHARLIE HURT: It’s really hard to find something wrong with that but the New York Times is able to find something wrong with everything that happens in the Trump admini-.

BRIAN KILMEADE: It’s too hard!

HURT: Literally, that’s their complaint is that, according to The New York Times, 100 pushups and 50 pull-ups in under 10 minutes — what could go wrong? Fitness experts caution against jumping into a difficult routine suggested by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pete Hegseth. Actually, that is a fair point though. They would be pretty humiliating if I tried to do that.

AINSLEY EARHARDT: But we know it’s a difficult routine. They’re saying jumping into a difficult routine, be careful. Well, we know that. I know that I’m not even jumping into that routine because I know I can’t do it. I can’t even do one pull-up. And I’m OK with that. Good for them. I think it’s awesome that they’re doing this.

KILMEADE: It’s like, well, if you’re a baseball player, don’t watch the Dodgers. They’re too good at it. It’s gonna humiliate you. Here’s a quote from the “New York Times” writer: Fitness expert said Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Hegseth were trying to do standard pull-ups rather than employing kips or the butterfly movement — cheating. But their shorter range of motion, reaching above the bar with the chin fully extending the arms on the descent fall short of CrossFit and military standard. Despite that Mr. Kennedy who has routinely talked about the benefits of fitness seem to invite average Americans to challenge themselves physically in the same way he and Hegseth had. Multiple fitness experts believe such a regimen is not feasible for a majority of the nation. Yeah, you don’t want people to strive. If you are not good at something, don’t try it and don’t set goals. If you can’t achieve, it if you are not at the top of your game, don’t even get in the game. That’s the new American slogan: “We don’t try.”

HURT: Just don’t do it.

KILMEADE: Just don’t do it. If that person makes you feel bad because they are so fit, don’t look at them and blame them.

HURT: Also, making fun of their — those are the last chin-ups. They cheated a little bit at the end, but they started out strong.

EARHARDT: Oh my gosh. This is like the person that is so jealous of someone else that they have to put them down instead of just being kind and praising them.

KILMEADE: Why didn’t we have Mark Milley do that? Is that what they are saying? The previous administration should have been doing this?

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