Fox News host Jesse Watters sparks outrage after highly suggestive joke about female Trump staff
Fox News host Jesse Watters is facing backlash after making a suggestive joke about President-elect Donald Trump’s female staff.
The conservative host known for his controversial comments about women raised eyebrows when he said he wanted to see some eye candy with the women nominated for Trump’s cabinet.
Watters’ cringe-inducing comment during a segment on The Five where the dinner-table hosts discussed a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been nominated to lead the Health and Human Services Department, doing a workout shirtless.
“I just think it’s unfair that you guys get to see this, and that we don’t get to see any female members of the Cabinet,” Watters said, referring to the Kennedy video as it played.
“I might like to see Linda McMahon do yoga,” he continued.
‘Tulsi surfing? I don’t know,” he also said. ‘Can I see something? It’s not fair, Jessica. It’s just not fair. Charlie and I need to see some eye candy too.”
Watters smiled as he looked into the camera, but his colleague Jessica Tarlov could be heard answering “yes,” off camera.
Fox News host Jesse Watters is facing backlash for saying he wanted to see some eye candy from Trump’s female Cabinet nominees in the segment where he showed Robert Kennedy Jr.’s shirtless workout video. discussed that the HHS nominee posted online
Tarlov then asked her colleague Dana Perino if she liked seeing Kennedy shirtless, to which she replied “no.”
Although Watters appeared to be joking, the clip of him was picked up online, with some viewers reacting indignantly.
One X user reposted the clip and called Watters “gross.”
Another user called it “misogyny at the forefront,” while a third wrote that it’s “impossible for him not to be a creep.”
A separate X user joked that Watters’ mother isn’t going to invite him to Christmas either.
Watters said in a Fox News segment that he wanted to see Linda McMahon, Trump’s nominee for education secretary, do yoga
The conservative Fox News host also suggested he wanted to see Trump’s DNI pick Tulsi Gabbard surf after Robert Kennedy Jr. had posted a training video
The segment came after Kennedy posted his own shirtless workout video on X on December 1.
The nominee’s bizarre video has already been viewed more than five million times.
In it, Kennedy, 70, works out shirtless in a gym wearing jeans.
“I’m practicing moves for my confirmation hearing,” Kennedy wrote in the caption of the 22-second video.
Some people online have praised his physique, but others wondered why he would post the video online or work out in jeans.
Kennedy is one of Trump’s more controversial picks for the top health care position due to his long anti-vaccination stance.
It wasn’t the first time he posted videos of himself working out at Gold’s Gym.
Trump’s other Cabinet picks have not posted videos of themselves online.