Jesse Watters on Monday thanked ex-DOGE employee Edward Coristine for getting assaulted in Washington, D.C., earlier this month because it resulted in President Donald Trump taking over the capital. (Watch the video below.)

The Fox News host’s take was as wince-inducing as you can imagine.

Coristine, the babyfaced ex-Elon Musk operative nicknamed “Big Balls,” was attacked by several teens in a suspected carjacking, police said. Despite D.C. violent crime being at a reported 30-year-low, Trump pounced on the incident to threaten a federal takeover of the capital and eventually implemented it by deploying the National Guard and taking control of the capital’s police force.

Guest Will Cain, also a Fox News host, conceded to Watters that he did not frequent D.C., so he had only anecdotal evidence of the area’s crime problem. But he said he knew people were happy Trump intervened.

“When Big Balls went down, that’s when Trump had to call it,” Watters said. “If Big Balls isn’t safe, no one’s safe. And I’m glad he took a beating for the rest of the city, and he’s back up on his feet. So, Big Balls, we love you.”

Watters has joined the chorus of conservatives applauding Trump for what others see as an attempt to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files.

On “The Five” earlier in the day, Watters said Democrats are calling the D.C. takeover a “power grab.”

“Yeah, it is a power grab,” he continued. “Democrats had this power to fight crime, weren’t using it, so Trump grabbed their power and used it to fight crime. Americans like power grabs like that.”