Fox News host Howard Kurtz has stirred up an online debate after suggesting that Melania Trump has received the worst treatment of any modern first lady.

“Melania is subjected to a particularly brutal kind of treatment and mockery. Whether it’s Jimmy Kimmel making fun of her accent to all this media chatter about well, why didn’t she go on this trip with her husband and did she swat his hand away?” Kurtz said during his appearance on the Ingraham Angle. “She’s got a thick skin, but no other modern first lady has been treated like this.”

People on Twitter, however, beg to differ.

The internet rallied against Kurtz’s comments by citing examples when former first lady Michelle Obama was harshly criticized for her appearance, called a man and even compared to an ape — by Fox reporters, no less. As for one of Obama’s predecessors, Hillary Clinton, she was subjected to scrutiny at the hands of Kurtz in 1998.

Twitter shared their thoughts:

Two words: Michelle Obama.

— Jess Phoenix ???? (@jessphoenix2018) December 16, 2018

Like when she said First Lady Michelle Obama's husband was an illegitimate president and insisted he was born in Kenya?

— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) December 15, 2018

Dude, they called Michelle Obama a monkey and a man. She got lambasted for showing her arms. Step down.

— Brian Wilde (@BWildeGlobal) December 16, 2018

Really??!! ANYWAY… how is my well-educated classy First Lady @MichelleObama & her equally well-read & classy husband @POTUS44 as well as their beautiful daughters, Malia & Sasha, doing? Intelligent & conscientious Americans miss you. ???? #Godspeed

— Waithira M. Protano (@In2TheSunshine2) December 15, 2018

You had nothing to say when Michelle Obama was called a man, was called an Ape, when she was accused of disrespecting the White House for showing her bare shoulders. I actually agree with you that Melania shouldn’t even be the focus as her husband directs a criminal enterprise. https://t.co/o60t1ISHeV

— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) December 16, 2018

Kurtz came to his defense on Twitter and conceded that Obama received a host of harassment in the form of racial slurs. However, he maintains that it wasn’t done by the “mainstream media.”

Of course Michelle Obama was hit with disgusting racial slurs, but not by the mainstream media, & that's what I was talking about https://t.co/UUUSeTnFrv

— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) December 14, 2018

That response was met with even more criticism. Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer, who worked in the Obama White House, noted that “[c]ertain opponents” included Fox News.

Certain opponents including @HowardKurtz’s employer https://t.co/fooEByV8Xe

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) December 16, 2018

And ABC News chief political analyst Matthew Dowd said that “it was Fox News that attacked Michelle Obama” while calling on Kurtz to name the mainstream media outlets that are currently attacking Mrs. Trump.

Again it was Fox News that attacked Michelle Obama. Name the mainstream media that is “attacking” Melania. You might spend more time fixing your workplace than in pointing fingers at others.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) December 16, 2018

“You might spend more time fixing your workplace than in pointing fingers at others,” Dowd added.

WATCH:

Howard Kurtz: "Melania is subjected to a particularly brutal kind of treatment and mockery… No other modern First Lady has been treated like this." pic.twitter.com/OQ6xds38SJ

— Contemptor (@TheContemptor) December 14, 2018