Fox News is … sounding the alarm?

Shortly after the conclusion of a Cabinet meeting Q&A at the White House on Tuesday, Fox News anchor John Roberts decided to zero in on one very disturbing thing President Donald Trump did: casually threaten to blow up Oman.

During the Q&A, Trump rejected a plan to have Oman and Iran jointly control the Strait of Hormuz.

“The Strait is going to be open to everybody. It’s international waters,” Trump said. “We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.”

The words fazed Roberts.

“In the middle of all that — and it really kind of went unnoticed by the reporters,” the visibly flummoxed anchor said. “President Trump became the first American president that I know of to ever threaten to take military action against Oman, saying that they have to behave like everyone else or we’re going to blow them up. I’m not quite sure what that was all about.”

“Let’s go to our senior White House correspondent, Peter Doocy, at the White House. Peter, what were your takeaways from this, other than that not-so-veiled threat against the country of Oman, with which the United States has had a traditionally peaceful relationship?”

Doocy went on to highlight other moments from the meeting, but Roberts seemed to still be reeling.

“Well, there’s no question there is something going on in this town. For sure,” Roberts said.

The State Department seemed to double down on Trump’s remarks about Oman — a Middle Eastern country the U.S. has shared a friendly relationship with for two centuries — by publishing a clip of his remarks on X Tuesday (below). You know, just so the threat doesn’t slip through the cracks.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: The Strait is going to be open to everybody. It’s international waters. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it.Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. pic.twitter.com/hCs1tIhZGP

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