[alexander_busek]

Nor is anyone as exercised as the president about critical things said about him on cable-TV programs.

What?!

Regards,

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Definition number 3.

exercised - verb
past tense: exercised; past participle: exercised
1. use or apply (a faculty, right, or process). "control is exercised by the Board"
2. engage in physical activity to sustain or improve health and fitness; take exercise.
"she still exercised every day"
3. occupy the thoughts of; worry or perplex.
"the knowledge that a larger margin was possible still exercised him"