Jesus, What A Jerk

I swear Friday night I heard the newscaster mumble “God, what a douchebag” under his breath:

A 101-year-old walker-wielding Queens woman bravely stood up to a 30-something mugger — but youth ultimately won out and the ghoul made off with a measly $33 after clocking her with a massive roundhouse punch.

The heinous attack occurred in the vestibule of her building at 172-90 Highland Ave. in Jamaica Estates last Sunday at 12:30 p.m.

It was captured on a building surveillance video. The man later robbed and beat an 85-year-old woman in a nearby building.

“There has to be a special rung of hell for him,” a police official said of the man, who remains at large.

Rose Morat, who was born during the Roosevelt administration — Theodore, that is — said that in her younger days the granny-beating goon might not have been so lucky.

“Fifteen years ago we would have had a tussle,” she told The Post last night, with a bravado that would have made the Rough Rider president proud.

Morat said she was heading out to Sunday Mass at Immaculate Conception when she encountered the fiend near the building’s front door.

“He looked pleasant and he had a beautiful smile,” she said.

He even seemed chivalrous at first, she said, offering to help her to the street.

“I saw the man sitting there,” she said. “He got up and said, ‘I’ll help you with your walker.'”

“No, thank you, I know how to handle myself,” she said.

The mugger then helped her with the door, but as she tried to pass through, he pounced on her.

“All of a sudden I got the bang, and then I saw stars,” said Morat, who suffered a fractured cheekbone.