Fox News host Jesse Watters sparks fury after very suggestive joke about female Trump staff
Fox News host Jesse Watters is facing backlash after he made a suggestive joke about President-elect Donald Trump’s female staff.
The conservative host known for making controversial remarks about women raised eyebrows when he said he wanted to see some ‘eye candy’ with the women nominated for Trump’s Cabinet.
Watters’ cringe comment during a segment on The Five where the hosts at the table were discussing a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is 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 we don’t get to see any female members of the Cabinet,’ Watters said, referencing the Kennedy video as it played.
‘I’d like to see maybe Linda McMahon doing yoga,’ he went on.
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‘Tulsi surfing? I don’t know,’ he also mentioned. ‘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 looking into the camera, but his colleague Jessica Tarlov could be heard responding off camera ‘yikes.’
Fox News host Jesse Watters is facing backlash for saying he wanted to see some ‘eye candy’ from Trump’s women Cabinet nominees in segment where he was discussing Robert Kennedy Jr.’s shirtless workout video the HHS nominee posted online
Tarlov then asked her colleague Dana Perino if she enjoys watching Kennedy shirtless, to which she responded ‘no.’
While it appeared Watters was making a joke, the clip of him was picked up online where some viewers responded in outrage.
One X user reposted the clip calling Watters ‘gross.’
Another user called it ‘misogyny front and center’ while a third wrote it is ‘impossible for him to not be a creep.’
A separate X user joked Watters’ mother is not going to invite him the Christmas either.
Watters said in a Fox News segment that he wanted to see Linda McMahon, Trump’s education secretary nominee, doing yoga
The conservative Fox News host also suggested he wanted to see Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s DNI pick, surfing after Robert Kennedy Jr. posted workout video
The segment came after Kennedy posted his own shirtless workout video on December 1 on X.
The bizarre video of the nominee has already racked up more than five million views.
In it, Kennedy, 70, is working out shirtless at a gym in a pair of jeans.
‘Practicing moves for my confirmation hearing,’ Kennedy wrote in the caption for the 22 second video.
Some people online have praised his physique but others questioned why he would post the video online or workout in jeans.
Kennedy is one of Trump’s more controversial picks for the top health job due to his long anti-vaccination stance.
It was not the first time he has posted videos of himself working out at Gold’s Gym.
Trump’s other Cabinet picks have not posted videos of themselves working out online.
