Greg Gutfeld makes a weird joke about John Krasinski being trans

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld stumbled through an awkward “joke” about actor John Krasinski, who was trans, after learning he had been named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive.

Under The five Gutfeld mentioned the fact that Krasinski had been voted Sexiest Man Alive earlier this week, before bizarrely saying that the star of A quiet place was transgender.

“I think it’s amazing that People has announced that a trans, uh, man might be the sexiest alive,” Gutfeld said. “Krasinski never talks about it, but he’s, you know, he’s trans. You know that?”

Co-host Jesse Watters — no stranger to making weird comments himself — looked at him in confusion and said he “didn’t know” Krasinski was trans, but Gutfeld doubled down on his remark.

“Yes, he’s trans,” Gutfeld proclaimed, before calling the acknowledgment “redundant” and adding, in an attempt to elicit more laughs, “I guess ‘alive’ is a given.”

Admittedly, People’s choice was met with some surprise on social media, with some users suggesting that Jonathan Bailey or Paul Mescal would have been more worthy recipients of the title, but Gutfeld is known to have said other bizarre things on air.

In September, he took heat for claiming that preventing LGBTQ+ youth from being outed to their parents was the “most immoral act since slavery”, adding: “We’re seeing right now the sexual exploitation of children and they’re using … this lie from privacy. They’re actually coming after children… they’re saying it’s an invasion of children’s privacy. It’s not true.”

He also claimed that LGBTQ+ activists had tried to talk to children about their sexuality without their parents’ knowledge.

“In the old days, if someone spoke to your child like that, you would be in jail or dead. There is no privacy separation between parents and children, and you should fight to the death on it,” he said.

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